Quotes by : Paul Tillich

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith it is an element of faith.

Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object....

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns....

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created....

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness”....

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason....