Paul Tillich

Theologian

1886-08-20

Books by Paul Tillich

The courage to be
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Dynamics of faith
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Systematic theology
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Quotes by Paul Tillich

Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.
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man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity
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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
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Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
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Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says Yes in spite of the anxiety of No.Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality
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Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
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Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
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Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
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man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity
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Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says Yes in spite of the anxiety of No.Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality
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Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
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Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
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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
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Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
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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.
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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
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