Dynamics of Faith Quotes

“...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“لا يمكن إزالة المجازفة عن أي فعل إيمان .”
― Paul J.O.Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“Without an ultimate concern as its basis every system of morals degenerates into a method of adjustment to social demands, whether they are ultimately justified or not. And the infinite passion which characterizes a genuine faith evaporates and is replaced by a clever calculation which is unable to withstand the passionate attacks of an idolatrous faith.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“Man is finite, man's reason lives in preliminary concerns; but man is also aware of his potential infinity, and this awareness appears as his ultimate concern, as faith. If reason is grasped by an ultimate concern, it is driven beyond itself; but it does not cease to be reason, finite reason. The ecstatic experience of an ultimate concern does not destroy the structure of reason. Ecstasy is fulfilled, not denied, rationality.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“Faith cannot guarantee factual truth. But faith can and must interpret the meaning of facts from the point of view of man's ultimate concern. In doing so it transfers historical truth into the dimension of the truth of faith.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“Courage as an element of faith is the daring self-affirmation of one's own being in spite of the powers of "non-being" which are the heritage of everything finite.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“يجب ألا يعطي الإنسان انطباعًا لأولئك الذين يريد التأثير فيهم أن الإيمان مطلب مفروض عليهم ، و أن رفضه يعني افتقارًا للإرادة الطيبة .”
― Paul J.O.Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“الإيمان أكثر من مجرد الثقة حتى في السلطات الأكثر قداسة”
― Paul J.O.Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“يبحث قلب الإنسان عن اللامتناهي لأنه الموضع الذي يريد أن يستقر فيه المتناهي . ففي اللامتناهي يرى تحققه الخاص . و هذا هو السبب في نشوة الإنجذاب و فتنة كل ما تتضح فيه الغاية القصوى .”
― Paul J.O.Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“حيث يوجد إيمان ، يوجد وعي بالقداسة .”
― Paul J.O.Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“في نشوة الإيمان هناك وعي بالحقيقة ، و بالقيمة الأخلاقية .”
― Paul J.O.Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

“الإنسان قادر على إمتلاك القرار مع العقل أو ضده ، و هو قادر على أن يخلق فيما فوق العقل أو يدمر فيما تحت العقل . و هذه القوة هي قوة نفسه ، مركز الارتباط النفسي الذي تتحد فيه جميع عناصر وجوده .”
― Paul J.O.Tillich , Dynamics of Faith