Paul Tillich

"Power and justice are inseparable when properly understood."

"The first duty of love is to listen."

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the greatest poverty."

"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."

"The mystery of existence is the only inexhaustible subject of thought."

"Language is the house of being, and we dwell in it as speakers of it."

"Art is the answer to the question which cannot be asked."

"The anxiety of meaninglessness is conquered by the creation of meaning through the act of caring."

"Love is the ultimate ground of existence."

"The greatest threat to human freedom is the illusion of security."

"Every moment has its creative power; every moment is a new beginning."

"Being alive is the greatest privilege, and it demands a response of gratitude."

"The power of a symbol is that it opens up dimensions of reality which otherwise are closed for us."

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

"We cannot live only on our past; we must participate in its creation as well as in our own."

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

"The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through humility."

"True education is the creation of persons who possess both knowledge and character."

"The self is the human being in its totality."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice."

"Healing requires us to embrace our own brokenness."

"The universe is not indifferent to human existence; it is the ground of our being."

"Creativity is the courage to let go of certainties."

"History is not the record of what happened, but the record of what was remembered."

"The depth of life is found in its struggles, not in its ease."

"Absolute truth is beyond the finite human mind."

"Work is not something imposed upon us; it is the expression of our essential nature."

"The future is not predetermined; we create it through our choices."

"Beauty awakens us to the presence of the infinite."