Paul Tillich Quotes

Eternity forbids thee to forget.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.

Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

Error is created; truth is eternal.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.

You have to know the reality and the reality is that we are eternal.

You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Every moment is nothing without end.

The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for only lasts a brief lifetime, and then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and exploding fire, it becomes gaseous and disappears, and still there is eternity. Silent, unopposed, brooding, forever.

Something there is more immortal even than the stars.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.

Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends

That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning.