Paul Tillich Quotes about Anxiety

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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Paul Tillich

Courage, Anxiety, Doubt

Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.193, University of Chicago Press

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

Paul Tillich

Anxiety, Existence, Threat

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

Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.

Paul Tillich

Anxiety, Doubt, Castles

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

Paul Tillich

Joy, Anxiety, Desire

Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.

Paul Tillich

Anxiety, Phrases, Paradoxical

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