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"25 Paul Tillich Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 20 August 1886. Died: 22 October 1965 | Philosopher | Theologian |

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Being Concerned Faith State
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Accept Being Courage Oneself
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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 being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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The first duty of love is to listen.

Duty First Listen Love
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Answers Asking Being Even
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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Act Being Concerned Consists
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Being Courage Decision Free
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Astonishment Philosophy Root
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There is no love which does not become help.

Become Does Help Love
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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Again Day Embarrassment Everyone
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We 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 murmuring of the sea.

Clouds Leaves Moving Respond
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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.

Answer Being Concern Concerns
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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Boredom is rage spread thin.

Boredom Rage Spread Thin
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Avoiding Being Neurosis Way
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Doubt Element Faith Opposite
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Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Also Always Cruelty Others
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Measures Sing Song Stirring
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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Act Being Faith Finite
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Asked Become Destiny Fulfill
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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Expresses
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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Anxiety Appears Courage Disappeared
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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Being Fails Failure Forgiven
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Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Able Alone Because Concern
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Achievements Ambiguity Awareness Deepest
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Paul Tillich Quotes & Sayings