“ The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity. Paul Tillich
“ This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics… 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
“ Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. Paul Tillich
“ Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. 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
“ Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. Paul Tillich
“ 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 a… Paul Tillich
“ Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. 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
“ The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. Paul Tillich
