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Famous Paul Tillich Quotes
“Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.”
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”
“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”
“I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.”
“Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.”
“Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.”
“Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.”
“Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.”
“If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.”
“There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.”
“Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.”
“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.”
“The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.”
“In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.”
“One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.”
“Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.”
“Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.”
“Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.”
“There is no love which does not become help.”
“Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.”