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Paul Tillich
German-American theologian and philosopher
Paul Johannes Tillichwas a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, Christian socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. Tillich taught at German universities before immigrating to the United States in 1933, where he taught at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago.
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Paul Johannes Tillichwas a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, Christian socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. Tillich taught at German universities before immigrating to the United States in 1933, where he taught at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago.
For the general public, Tillich wrote the well-received The Courage to Beand Dynamics of Faithwas for theologians; in many points it was an answer to existentialist critique of Christianity.
Tillich’s work attracted scholarship from other influential thinkers like Karl Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, George Lindbeck, Erich Przywara, James Luther Adams, Avery Cardinal Dulles, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sallie McFague, Richard John Neuhaus, David Novak, Thomas Merton, Michael Novak, and Martin Luther King Jr. According to H. Richard Niebuhr, “[t]he reading of Systematic Theology can be a great voyage of discovery into a rich and deep, and inclusive and yet elaborated, vision and understanding of human life in the presence of the mystery of God.” John Herman Randall Jr. lauded the Systematic Theology as “beyond doubt the richest, most suggestive, and most challenging philosophical theology our day has produced.”
Tillich also authored many works in ethics, the philosophy of history, and comparative religion. His ideas continue to be studied and discussed at international conferences and seminars.
24 Quotes by Paul Tillich
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
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There is no love which does not become help.
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
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The first duty of love is to listen.
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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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.
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Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
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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.
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Man’s ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
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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.
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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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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
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Boredom is rage spread thin.
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
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Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
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