Quotes by Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen

#Duty, #Love

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being...

#Religion

When you love someone, and you love them with your heart, it never disappears when...

#Love

It is easier to swallow angry words than to have to eat them

#Anger

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that...

#Anger, #Virtue

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the...

#Faith, #God

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of...

#Courage

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

#Decision

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill...

#Destiny, #Mankind

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails...

#Failure

The first duty of love is to listen.

#Listening, #Respect, #Responsibility

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

#Paul Tillich