Paul Tillich Quotes

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.

I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.

Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and sadness of the world that Buddha's eyes close out is the pain and sadness of the world that the eyes of Jesus close in.

Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.

What miracle is God fashioning out of this misfortune?

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.

None of us find yoga. We are not that smart. Yoga finds us. We are taken up by it. It is nothing more than pure grace. We don’t make this happen. We are the very fortunate recipients of this divine largesse.

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.

Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails.

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.