Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paul Tillich
Age: 79 †
Born: 1886
Born: August 20
Died: 1965
Died: October 22
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Paul Johannes Oskar Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich
Answers
Grasped
State
Contains
Religion
Concerns
States
Concern
Life
Ultimate
Answer
Meaning
Qualifies
Question
Preliminary

More quotes by Paul Tillich

Image
Fear is the absence of faith.
Paul Tillich
Image
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
Image
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.
Paul Tillich
Image
Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
Paul Tillich
Image
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware
Paul Tillich
Image
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
Paul Tillich
Image
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich
Image
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
Paul Tillich
Image
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
Paul Tillich
Image
Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human
Paul Tillich
Image
For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.
Paul Tillich
Image
The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
Paul Tillich
Image
Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.
Paul Tillich
Image
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
Paul Tillich
Image
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion it is the blood of life.
Paul Tillich
Image
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.
Paul Tillich
Image
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
Paul Tillich
Image
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.
Paul Tillich
Image
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
Paul Tillich
Image
We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.
Paul Tillich