Mans ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. – Paul Tillich
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
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
The first duty of love is to listen. – Paul Tillich
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. – Paul Tillich
Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith. – Paul Tillich
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. – Paul Tillich
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. – Paul Tillich
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
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. – 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
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude. – Paul Tillich
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. – Paul Tillich
