Paul Tillich Quotes

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

Depression is rage spread thin.

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

Fear is the absence of faith.

Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.

[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for us.[a symbol] also unlocks dimensions and elements of our soul which correspond to the dimensions and elements of reality. A great play gives us not only a new vision of the human scene, but it opens up hidden depths of our own being.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.