Christopher Sibley

“the courage to die is the test of the courage to be.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

“The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

“In the state of despair there is nobody and nothing that accepts. But there is the power of acceptance itself which is experienced. Meaninglessness, as long as it is experienced, includes an experience of the "power of acceptance". To accept this power of acceptance consciously is the religious answer of absolute faith, of a faith which has been deprived by doubt of any concrete content, which nevertheless is faith and the source of the most paradoxical manifestation of the courage to be.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

“real joy is a “severe matter”; it is the happiness of a soul which is “lifted above every circumstance.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be