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Paul Tillich Quotes

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation Picture Quote #1

All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In 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 courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible Picture Quote #1

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom Picture Quote #1

Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one’s existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness Picture Quote #1

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We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision Picture Quote #1

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason Picture Quote #1

Experience of the power of being which is present even in the face of the most radical manifestation of non being Picture Quote #1

Vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning Picture Quote #1

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature Picture Quote #1

Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received Picture Quote #1

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One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life, the power of reunion of the separated Picture Quote #1

Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny Picture Quote #1

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life Picture Quote #1

Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object Picture Quote #1

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful Picture Quote #1

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Man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity Picture Quote #1

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated Picture Quote #1

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us Picture Quote #1

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Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation (Paul Tillich Quotes) All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens (Paul Tillich Quotes) 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 (Paul Tillich Quotes) In 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 courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible (Paul Tillich Quotes) Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom (Paul Tillich Quotes) Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one’s existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness (Paul Tillich Quotes) We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision (Paul Tillich Quotes) Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason (Paul Tillich Quotes) Experience of the power of being which is present even in the face of the most radical manifestation of non being (Paul Tillich Quotes) Vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning (Paul Tillich Quotes) Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature (Paul Tillich Quotes) Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received (Paul Tillich Quotes) One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life, the power of reunion of the separated (Paul Tillich Quotes) Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny (Paul Tillich Quotes) One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life (Paul Tillich Quotes) Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object (Paul Tillich Quotes) Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity (Paul Tillich Quotes) Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful (Paul Tillich Quotes) Man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity (Paul Tillich Quotes) Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated (Paul Tillich Quotes) The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us (Paul Tillich Quotes)

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