Paul Tillich Quotes

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Paul Tillich

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

Paul Tillich

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

Paul Tillich

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

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

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

Paul Tillich