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In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

Paul Tillich

Character, Courageous, Shows

Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

Paul Tillich

Fate, Self, Anxiety

Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

Paul Tillich

Men, Tragedy, Together

Paul Tillich (2012). “The Shaking of the Foundations”, p.83, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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.

Paul Tillich

Character, Self, Opposites

Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.

Paul Tillich

Attitude, Existentialism, Existence

Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself.

Paul Tillich

Opposites, Political, Degrees

"The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich, (p. 112), 1952.