Quotes from Paul Tillich
The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich
Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human
- Paul Tillich
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
- Paul Tillich
history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
- Paul Tillich
Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.
- Paul Tillich
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
- Paul Tillich
There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.
- Paul Tillich
Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.
- Paul Tillich
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
- Paul Tillich
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware
- Paul Tillich
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
- Paul Tillich
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
- Paul Tillich