Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life.

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

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. Paul Tillich.

The fact that man never is satisfied with any stage of his finite development, the fact that nothing finite can hold him, although finitude is his destiny, indicates the indissoluble relation of everything finite to being-itself.

Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.

Man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity.

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

Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.

All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

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.

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

History has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.