Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. Paul Tillich More Quotes by Paul Tillich More Quotes From Paul Tillich You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted! Paul Tillich namestryingfacts Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.' Paul Tillich painvoicelight The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich marriagelovelife God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him. Paul Tillich essencedoeinspirational In 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 fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware Paul Tillich thoughtfulhonestyhumble The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. Paul Tillich errorsstonesanswers The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Paul Tillich confidencecouragepositive The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God. Paul Tillich infinitedepthnames We have to build a better man before we can build a better society. Paul Tillich evilmenpeople One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life. Paul Tillich emotionalstronglove-is 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 safetycreativeexpression Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love. Paul Tillich our-loveforgivenessacceptance 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 loud-voiceslovepeople 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 lonelywisdominspirational Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. Paul Tillich faithfuldoubtthinking Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. Paul Tillich faithdoubtopposites He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Paul Tillich failuredesignrisk Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. Paul Tillich infinitespiritualfaith Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude. Paul Tillich solitudelonelinessbears The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social. Paul Tillich creativeevilcharacter
