I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: God
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
Topics: Power
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Solitude
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. flo not seek for anything, do not perform anything do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Divinity, God, Faith
Fear is the absence of faith.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Fear, Anxiety
We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Forgiveness, Love
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
Topics: Achievements, Maturity, Achieving
Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone, and the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Loneliness, Solitude
Love that cares, listens.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Caring
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Decision
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Acceptance, Confidence, Realization, Awareness
The first duty of love is to listen.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: One liners, Listening, Love, Duty
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.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Religion
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Faith, Belief
Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Doubt
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
Topics: Solitude, Language
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
—Paul Tillich
I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t’were perjury to love thee now!
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Kindness
Boredom is rage spread thin.
—Paul Tillich
Topics: Boredom, One liners
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
Topics: Faith
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
Topics: Religion
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Ole Hallesby Norwegian Theologian
- Karl Barth Swiss Protestant Theologian
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran Pastor
- Reinhold Niebuhr American Theologian
- Johann Gottfried Herder German Critic, Poet
- Albert Schweitzer French Theologian
- Martin Luther German Protestant Theologian
- Anthony de Mello Indian-born American Theologian
- Tryon Edwards American Theologian
- Archibald Alexander Hodge American Presbyterian Theologian
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