Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning. 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 names trying facts 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 pain voice light The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich marriage love life God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him. Paul Tillich essence doe inspirational 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 thoughtful honesty humble The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. Paul Tillich errors stones answers The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Paul Tillich confidence courage positive The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God. Paul Tillich infinite depth names We have to build a better man before we can build a better society. Paul Tillich evil men people One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life. Paul Tillich emotional strong love-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 safety creative expression 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-love forgiveness acceptance 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-voices love people 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 lonely wisdom inspirational Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. Paul Tillich faithful doubt thinking Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. Paul Tillich faith doubt opposites He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Paul Tillich failure design risk Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. Paul Tillich infinite spiritual faith Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude. Paul Tillich solitude loneliness bears 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 creative evil character
