Jan 3, 2021
Absent Christianese
They are aware if the paradoxical character of every prayer, of speaking to somebody to whom you cannot speak because he is not “somebody,” of asking somebody of whom you cannot ask anything because he gives or gives not before you ask, of saying “thou” to somebody who is nearer to the I than the I is to itself. Each of these paradoxes drives the religious consciousness toward a God above the God of theism.
- Paul Tillich
One of my favorite passages from “The Courage To Be”:
