Paul Tillich on theology

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

In all existential knowledge both subject and object are transformed by the very act of knowing.

A self which has become a matter of calculation and management has ceased to be a self. It has become a thing. You must participate in a self in order to know what it is.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

• Forgiveness
• Love

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”

Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963