Paul Tillich

“I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.”

“Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.”

“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 o...”

“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 s...”

“There is no love which does not become help.”

“Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.”

“If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.”

“Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.”

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