The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
- Paul Tillich
Courage, Being, Unacceptable, Spite
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
Question, Other, Which, Answer
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
Loneliness, Pain, Alone, Expresses
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
- Paul Tillich
Way, Avoiding, Being, Neurosis
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
- Paul Tillich
Achievements, Symptom, Ambiguity
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.
- Paul Tillich
Voice, Waves, Through, Respond
The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich
Love, Duty, First, Love Is
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.
- Paul Tillich
Pain, Alone, Created, Solitude
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.
- Paul Tillich
Pain, Language, Created, Wisely
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.
- Paul Tillich
Give, Concerned, Which, Meaning Of
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
Religion, Religious, Means, Meaning Of
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
- Paul Tillich
Anxiety, Doubt, Rooted, Disappeared
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
- Paul Tillich
Alone, Ultimate, Symbolic, Expressed
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
- Paul Tillich
Song, Measures, Trained, Stirring
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
- Paul Tillich
Faith, Doubt, Opposite, Element
Boredom is rage spread thin.
- Paul Tillich
Boredom, Rage, Spread, Thin
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
- Paul Tillich
Speak, Everyone, Again, Embarrassment
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
- Paul Tillich
Decision, Risk, Being, Rooted
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
- Paul Tillich
Root, Astonishment, Philosophy
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
- Paul Tillich
Act, Turned, Finite, Grasped
There is no love which does not become help.
- Paul Tillich
Love, Help, Which, Become
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
- Paul Tillich
Risks, Never, His, Forgiven
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
- Paul Tillich
Destiny, Himself, His, Asked
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
- Paul Tillich
Faith, Concerned, State, Ultimately
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
- Paul Tillich
Always, Cruelty, Also, Towards
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