Quotes from Paul Tillich

"You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

When you love someone, and you love them with your heart, it never disappears when you are apart. And when you love someone and you've done all you can do, you set them free, and if that love was true... when you love someone it will all come back to

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.