Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

— Paul Tillich

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.

— Paul Tillich

The character of human life like the character of the human condition like the character of all life is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil the true and false the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social.

— Paul Tillich

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

— Paul Tillich

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

— Paul Tillich

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

— Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen.

— Paul Tillich

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.

— Paul Tillich

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

— Paul Tillich

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.

— Paul Tillich