Quotes About Paul Tillich

is no love which does not become help," taught the theologian Paul Tillich.)

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.

As Paul Tillich explains, "Either love is something other than emotion or the Great Commandment is meaningless."6 When

And he wanted more than anything else, deeply and compassionately, to be of help; and he could be of help in this age, and was of help, because artist and philosopher as well as theologian, he cared for culture as well as for Christ.6

Cynical relativism is not wrecked by its self contradictions. Its nemesis is the empty space it produces, the complete vacuum into which new absolutisms poor.

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.