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

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  –Paul Tillich

  religion

• “The first duty of love is to listen.” -Paul Tillich

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  –Paul Tillich

  love

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

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  hope

• “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

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  god

• “Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.” -Paul Tillich

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  –Paul Tillich

  faith

• “He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.” -Paul Tillich

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  –Paul Tillich

  failure

• “The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.” -Paul Tillich

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  –Paul Tillich

  courage

• Man’s ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. – Paul Tillich

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  –Paul Tillich

  alone

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