{"author":"Paul Tillich","author_id":"Paul+Tillich","total_quotes":53,"quotes":[{"text":"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.","author":"Paul Tillich","tags":["hurt","meaning","existence "],"id":192,"author_id":"Paul+Tillich"},{"text":"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.","author":"Paul Tillich","tags":["religion","theology"],"id":5709,"author_id":"Paul+Tillich"},{"text":"Fear is the absence of faith.","author":"Paul Tillich","tags":["success","happiness"],"id":18794,"author_id":"Paul+Tillich"},{"text":"Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most fundamental expression of this fact is the language which gives man the power to abstract from the concretely given and, after having abstracted from it, to return to it, to interpret and transform it. The most vital being is the being which has the word and is by the word liberated from bondage to the given.","author":"Paul Tillich","tags":["language","meaning","religion","the-word"],"id":49656,"author_id":"Paul+Tillich"},{"text":"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.","author":"Paul Tillich","tags":["accept","being","oneself "],"id":56711,"author_id":"Paul+Tillich"},{"text":"The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.","author":"Paul Tillich","tags":["truth"],"id":62891,"author_id":"Paul+Tillich"},{"text":"Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by  and turned to  the infinite.","author":"Paul Tillich","tags":["faith","unity"],"id":76045,"author_id":"Paul+Tillich"},{"text":"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.","author":"Paul Tillich","tags":["life","meaning","question "],"id":88087,"author_id":"Paul+Tillich"},{"text":"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.","author":"Paul Tillich","tags":["biblical-ethics","biblical-morality","ethics","morality","sin","truth","ultimate-reality"],"id":101169,"author_id":"Paul+Tillich"},{"text":"Astonishment is the root of philosophy.","author":"Paul Tillich","tags":["philosophy"],"id":134821,"author_id":"Paul+Tillich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}