“"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.”
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”
Paul Tillich“As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.”
David Brooks“Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.”
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 alone.”
Paul Tillich“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.”
Paul Tillich“Language... 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 alone.”
Paul Tillich“Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.”
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