Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.

Paul Tillich's Popular Quotes

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.

- Paul Tillich

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

- Paul Tillich

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 bein…

- Paul Tillich

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

- Paul Tillich

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

- Paul Tillich

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

- Paul Tillich

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 sa…

- Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen.

- Paul Tillich

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

- Paul Tillich