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Paul Tillich Quotes | Quotes said by Paul Tillich

  • Paul Tillich Quote #1

    ...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.


  • Paul Tillich Quote #2

    ...sin is separation.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #3

    Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

    Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #6

    Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #7

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

  • Paul Tillich Quote #8

    Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #9

    Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #10

    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.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #11

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

  • Paul Tillich Quote #12

    Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #13

    Faith…is a concern of the whole person; it is the most personal concern, and that which determines all others. …it is not something which we can produce by the will to believe, but that by which we are grasped.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #14

    Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage. 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 Quote #15

    He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #16

    I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #17

    It is most important for the practice of the Christian ministry, especially in its missionary activities toward those both within and without the Christian culture, to consider pagans, humanists, and Jews as members of the latent Spiritual Community and not as complete strangers who are invited into the Spiritual Community from outside. This insight serves as a powerful weapon against ecclesiastical and hierarchical arrogance.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #18

    Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #19

    Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #20

    Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #21

    Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

  • Paul Tillich Quote #22

    man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

  • Paul Tillich Quote #23

    Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #24

    Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #25

    Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #26

    Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #27

    Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #28

    Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. Although, in daily life, we do not always distinguish these words, we should do so consistently and thus deepen our understanding of our human predicament.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #29

    Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

  • Paul Tillich Quote #30

    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.

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