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125 quotes from Paul Tillich: 'Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.', 'Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone.
“the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable…. This is the genuine meaning of the Pauline-Lutheran doctrine of ‘justification by faith” ― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love. 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 (2005).
It takes courage in a world that seems filled with anxiety and negation to embrace such seemingly naive spiritual positives as joy, wisdom, and faith. Tillich was a German theologian who...
To accept this power of acceptance consciously is the religious answer of absolute faith, of a faith which has been deprived by doubt of any concrete content, which nevertheless is faith and the source of the most paradoxical manifestation of the courage to be.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Paul Tillich Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
To accept this power of acceptance consciously is the religious answer of absolute faith, of a faith which has been deprived by doubt of any concrete content, which nevertheless is faith and the source of the most paradoxical manifestation of the courage to be.
