Paul Tillich
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
Paul TillichHe who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul TillichCruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
Paul TillichThe courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
Paul TillichFaith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
Paul TillichMan's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
Paul TillichThere is no love which does not become help.
Paul TillichThe first duty of love is to listen.
Paul TillichWe 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 TillichThe awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul TillichI hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
Paul TillichCynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
Paul TillichThe question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.
Paul TillichThe courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul TillichLanguage... 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 TillichBoredom is rage spread thin.
Paul TillichFaith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
Paul TillichLoneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul TillichMan is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
Paul Tillich
