Quotes from Paul Tillich
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
- 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
Love that cares, listens.
- Paul Tillich
There is no love which does not become help.
- Paul Tillich
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 the meaning of our life.
- Paul Tillich
We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
- Paul Tillich
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
- Paul Tillich
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness…. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted."
- Paul Tillich
The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
- Paul Tillich
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
- Paul Tillich
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
- Paul Tillich
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
- Paul Tillich