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Paul Tillich Quotes on God

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. This page collects quotes attributed to Paul Tillich on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Paul Tillich:

    “Faith is being grasped by an ultimate concern.”

  • Attributed to Paul Tillich:

    “Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”

  • Attributed to Paul Tillich:

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

  • Attributed to Paul Tillich:

    “Religion is the substance of culture; culture is the form of religion.”