“Anxiety strives to become fear, because fear can be met by courage.”

— Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (1952)

About Paul Tillich

1886 – 1965

German-American theologian and philosopher, author of "The Courage to Be" (1952).

“Faith comprises both itself and the doubt of itself.”

“Man is estranged from what he essentially is.”

“A self which has become a matter of calculation and management has ceased to be a self.”

“Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”

“Courage is of the heart by derivation, and great it is. But fear is of the soul.”