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Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.

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