Paul Tillich Quotes

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Fear is the absence of faith.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

The character of human life like the character of the human condition like the character of all life is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil the true and false the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social.

You are accepted! ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything do not perform anything do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.