Paul Tillich Quotes
Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American Lutheran theologian and philosopher of religion and one of the most widely read religious thinkers of the twentieth century. After service as a chaplain on the Western Front in the First World War, he taught at Marburg, Dresden, Leipzig, and Frankfurt before being dismissed by the Nazi government in 1933 as the first non-Jewish professor barred from German universities. The quotes below are attributed to Paul Tillich, organized by topic.
Paul Tillich on God
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Attributed to Paul Tillich:
“Faith is being grasped by an ultimate concern.”
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Attributed to Paul Tillich:
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”
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Attributed to Paul Tillich:
“The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.”
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Attributed to Paul Tillich:
“Religion is the substance of culture; culture is the form of religion.”
Paul Tillich on Life
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Attributed to Paul Tillich:
“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone; solitude expresses the glory of being alone.”