Quotes by Tillich, Paul

Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was, along with contemporary Karl Barth, one of the more influential Protestant theologians of the twentieth century..

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

Tillich, Paul on god
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"I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!"

Tillich, Paul on kindness

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"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."

Tillich, Paul on language

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"Depression is rage spread thin."

Tillich, Paul on anger
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"The first duty of love is to listen."

Tillich, Paul on listening
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on loneliness
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"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 sea."

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"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."

Tillich, Paul on religion

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