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

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


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The first duty of love is to listen.

The first duty of love is to listen.



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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.



Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'



God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.



We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.



One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.



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

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



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.

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.



Every institution is inherently demonic.

Every institution is inherently demonic.



The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.





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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

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