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Paul Tillich Loves Quotes and Sayings
#1-2 Love Is Stronger Than Death, The New Being
1. Love is the infinite which is given to the finite. Therefore we love in others, for we do not merely love others, but we love the Love that is in them and which is more than their or our love. [S]
2. …there is no love which does not become help. [S]
#3-5 The Life of Faith, Dynamics of faith [S]
3. The separation of faith and love is always the consequence of a deterioration of religion.
4. …history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
5. But faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the separated.
#6 “To Whom Much Is Forgiven…”, The New Being
6. We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love. [S]
#7 The New Being
7. We can love without being sure of the answering love of the other one. [S]
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was, along with his contemporaries Rudolf Bultmann (Germany), Karl Barth (Switzerland), and Reinhold Niebuhr (United States), one of the four most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century. Among the general populace, he is best known for his works The Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of Faith (1957), which introduced issues of theology and modern culture to a general readership.
Theologically, he is best known for his major three-volume work Systematic Theology (1951–63), in which he developed his “method of correlation”: an approach of exploring the symbols of Christian revelation as answers to the problems of human existence raised by contemporary existential philosophical analysis.
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Sayings by Paul Tillich
#1 You Are Accepted, The Shaking of the Foundations
1. Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
#2-3 The Courage to Be
2. One could say that the courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.
3. Man, as finite freedom, is free within the contingencies of his finitude. But within these limits he is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become, to fulfill his destiny.
#4-6 Loneliness and Solitude, The Eternal Now, Scribner, 1963 [S]
4. Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s 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.
5. Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
6. 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.
#7 “To Whom Much Is Forgiven…”, The New Being
7. Forgiveness is unconditional or it is not forgiveness at all. [S]
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Unsourced Quotes by Paul
1. The first duty of love is to listen.
2. He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.