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Paul Tillich - From the Anxiety category:
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Awareness category:
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)
Paul Tillich - From the Boredom category:
Boredom is rage spread thin. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Choices category:
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Courage category:
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Destiny category:
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Doubt category:
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Failure category:
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Fear category:
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Greatness category:
We can do not great things - only small things with great love. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Hope category:
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Knowledge category:
He who knows about depth knows about God. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Life category:
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Listening category:
The first duty of love is to listen. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Music category:
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Nature category:
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)
Paul Tillich - From the Philosophy category:
Astonishment is the root of philosophy. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Questions category:
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)
Paul Tillich - From the Questions category:
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers, like stones, at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Religion category:
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 the meaning of our life. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Symbols category:
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Tradition category:
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. (Paul Tillich)
Paul Tillich - From the Words category:
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)
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