Paul Tillich...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines. ✨ Paul Tillich (1988). Writings on religio… ▶373Love
Paul TillichDecision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.351Reflection
Paul TillichOne cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.341LifeLove
Paul TillichOnly the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. ✨ Paul Tillich (1988). Writings on religion374Humanity
Paul TillichFaith is the state of being ultimately concerned. ✨ 1957 Dynamics of Faith.341HopePolitics
Paul TillichIn 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 … ▶375ThoughtTruth
Paul TillichThe citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of thei… ▶354Humanity
Paul TillichIf my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.323Politics
Paul TillichThe 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 unbel… ▶313Love
Paul TillichThe vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning. ✨ Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). The Esse… ▶368Philosophy
Paul TillichLove is the infinite which is given to the finite. ✨ Paul Tillich (2005). The New Being, p.173, U of Nebraska Press314Love
Paul TillichAstonishment is the root of philosophy.347Philosophy
Paul TillichThe courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ✨ Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). The Essential Tillich, p.174, University of C… ▶336Life
Paul TillichThe first duty of love is to listen.369Love
Paul TillichSometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.271HopeThoughtTime
Paul TillichParents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: The first duty of love is to listen.3610Love
Paul TillichIn 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 … ▶271HopeLife
Paul TillichIn the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character. ✨ Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). The Essential Tillich, p.22, Universit… ▶293Hope
Paul TillichThere is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God. ✨ Paul Tillich (2012). The Shaking of the Foundations, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers316Sadness
Paul TillichFaith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated. ✨ Paul Tillich (1988). Writings on religion3510HopeLovePolitics
Paul TillichNeurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. ✨ The Courage to Be pt. 2, ch. 3 (1952)349Sadness
Paul TillichReligion 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 … ▶327LifePhilosophyPolitics
Paul TillichI hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. ✨ Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). The Essential Tillich, p.58, University of Chicago… ▶338Hope
Paul TillichFaith embraces itself and the doubt about itself. ✨ Paul Tillich (2010). Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality, p.61, University of Chicago Press272HopeTruth
Paul TillichWisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.262LovePhilosophy
Paul TillichThe courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. ✨ Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). The Essential Tillich, p.193… ▶339Love
Paul TillichLove that cares, listens.273Love
Paul Tillich[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety wh… ▶285HumanityTruth
Paul TillichWe 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 murmuri… ▶329Reflection
Paul TillichCynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it. ✨ Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). The Essential Tillich, p.183, University of Chi… ▶242LifeTruth
