Quotes from Paul Tillich
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
- Paul Tillich
Fear is the absence of faith.
- Paul Tillich
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
- Paul Tillich
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.
- Paul Tillich
There is no love which does not become help.
- Paul Tillich
For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.
- Paul Tillich
Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
- Paul Tillich
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
- Paul Tillich
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.
- Paul Tillich
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
- Paul Tillich
Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.
- Paul Tillich
Boredom is rage spread thin.
- Paul Tillich