Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.
There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God. - Paul Tillich
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
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
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
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…
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him. - Paul Tillich
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. - Paul Tillich
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. - Paul Tillich
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
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
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…
The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich
The first duty of love is to listen.
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life. - Paul Tillich
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.
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