Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillichwas a German American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth20 August 1886
CountryGermany
love loud-voices giving
All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.
facts accepted accepting
Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.
courage anxiety doubt
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
mean reality men
[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.
blessing boredom rage
Boredom is rage spread thin.
pain work joy
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.
religious hurt mean
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
forgiving remember
Forgiving presupposes remembering.
names depth infinite
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
holiness awareness
Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.
spiritual independent men
One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.
love care
Love that cares, listens.
desire reunion states
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
doubt embrace
Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.