Paul Tillich Quotes

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• One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.

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  Strong, Love Is, Emotional

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• The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

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  Errors, Answers, Stones

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• You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!

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  Names, Trying, Facts

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• The first duty of love is to listen.

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  Love, Life, Marriage

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• God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

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  Inspirational, Essence, Doe

  Paul Tillich (1973). “Systematic Theology”, p.205, University of Chicago Press

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

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  Faith, Opposites, Doubt

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• The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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  Positive, Confidence, Courage

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press

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• We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

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  Men, People, Evil

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• Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'

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  Pain, Light, Voice

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• 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

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  Honesty, Humble, Thoughtful

  Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.

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  Virtue, Courage To Love, Greater

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• Love that cares, listens.

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  Love, Caring, Care

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• The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

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  Names, Depth, Infinite

  Paul Tillich (2012). “The Shaking of the Foundations”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.

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  Expression, Safety, Creative

  Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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

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  Failure, Design, Risk

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• Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.

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  Pain, Grace, Strikes

  Paul Tillich (1962). “The Shaking of the Foundations”, New York : C. Scribner's Sons

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• There is no love which does not become help.

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  Love, Grace, Doe

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

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  Loneliness, Solitude, Bears

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• Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

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  Forgiveness, Acceptance, Our Love

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.10, U of Nebraska Press

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• All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

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  Love, Loud Voices, People

  Paul Tillich (1954). “Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analyses and Ethical Applications”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Fear is the absence of faith.

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  Absence

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• Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

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  Thinking, Faithful, Doubt

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• Every institution is inherently demonic.

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  Institutions, Demonic

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• The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

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