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Best Quotes by Paul Tillich (Top 10)
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
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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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The first duty of love is to listen.
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
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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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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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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
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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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The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.
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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.
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More Paul Tillich Quotes
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
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Boredom is rage spread thin.
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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
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Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
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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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Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
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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.
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
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There is no love which does not become help.
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