Paul Tillich

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of the fact that one is unacceptable."

"Faith is not belief. Faith is the acceptance of something transcendent."

"Love and justice are not contrary forces. Love is the ultimate justice."

"The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference."

"Loneliness and solitude are different. Solitude is chosen; loneliness is imposed."

"Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness."

"The most important thing is not to stop questioning."

"Art is the proof that God is not a puritanical bore."

"Freedom is the burden of decision."

"Every moment is an opportunity to become something greater."

"The depth of a person's life is measured by their capacity for self-transcendence."

"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is the proper use of knowledge."

"The finite cannot adequately explain itself."

"Being embraces all things that are."

"Heteronomy is the denial of freedom."

"The self is that which can be aware of itself."

"Spirit is in history, not above it."

"Death is the price of life."

"The sacred is not separate from the secular."

"Anxiety is the price of freedom."

"Ultimate concern is the definition of faith."

"The community is the cradle of all virtue."

"Justice without love is legalism."

"Beauty is the quality of being apprehended as intrinsically valuable."

"The tragic element is essential to all being."

"Being-itself is the ground of all existence."

"Existence precedes essence in the human condition."

"Truth is the manifestation of reality."

"Education is not the transmission of information but the formation of the person."

"Culture is the expression of the human spirit."