Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says "Yes" in spite of the anxiety of "No." Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality

— Paul Tillich

Faith…is a concern of the whole person; it is the most personal concern, and that which determines all others. …it is not something which we can produce by the will to believe, but that by which we are grasped.

— Paul Tillich

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

— Paul Tillich

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

— Paul Tillich

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

— Paul Tillich

Fear is the absence of faith.

— Paul Tillich

For love ... is the blood of life the power of reunion in the separated.

— Paul Tillich

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. Furthermore, it strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice was saying: “You are accepted.

— Paul Tillich

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

— Paul Tillich

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

— Paul Tillich