Paul Tillich Quotes

My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

My religion lies in my composition.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Religion is such a path with people.

I stopped going to church for awhile.

Everybody has their thing that they're truthful about. My thing is just a love of God... so that's what I'm going to do.

I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.