Quotes by Paul Tournier - Page 1

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Religion
Consideration
Life Story
Mind
Psychological
Spiritual
Thinking
Aloud
Inevitably
Leads
Longer
Problems
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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Dream
Love
Alone
Lonely
Nothing
Makes
Secrets
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We do not posses God. We find him periodically.
Paul Tournier / Physician
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Confidence
Positive
Attitude
Business
Sports
Sooner Or Later
Who
Sooner
Those
Win
Later
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The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Being Wrong
Worst
Worst Things
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The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Mind
Refined
Subtle
Vulnerable
Minds
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To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Dangerous
Intolerance
Source
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Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Medical
May
Sickness
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If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Fear Of Failure
Joy
No Fear
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Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Religion
Endeavor
Bring
Let Us
Seek
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Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Expression
Ordinary
Serious
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There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Christian
Married
Two
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Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Christ
Intensity
Tasks
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Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Opportunity
Doubt
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...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Giving
Highest
Privilege
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No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Feelings
Understanding
World
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Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Men
Enemy
Perspective
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At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Acceptance
Heart
Lovable
Personality
Qualify
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We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Ideas
Littles
Motivation
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Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Loyalty
Great Men
Needs
Self
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Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Deaf
Individual
Our World
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That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Inspirational
Love
Marriage
Running
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I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Get Well
Needs
Nine
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Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Faith
Adventure
Surrender
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The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Inspirational
Adventurous Life
Kind
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Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Family
Life
Marriage
Meaningful
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The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Commitment
Discovery
Real
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People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Age
Emotional
People
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Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.
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Blue
Vitality
Years
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The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by step to correct his errors, whereas nothing will ever happen to him if he doesn't get going.
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Men
Errors
Mistake
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It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Clear
Links
Understanding
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Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Giving
Retirement
Years
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The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Acceptance
Miracle
Responsibility
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Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Change
Life
Running
Acceptance
Complexes
Contrary
Heredity
Mean
Psychological
Resignation
Running Away
Struggle
Suffering
Away
Injustices
On The Contrary
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The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Men
Block
Self
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In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Heart
Long
Order
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What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the state of modern medicine: It has lost the sense of the unity of man. Such is the price it has paid for its scientific progress. It has sacrificed art to science.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Art
Men
Medicine
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Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting the inward truth about oneself, confessing one's anxiety, and still to believe, that is to say that the Christian puts his trust not in his own strength, but in the grace of God.
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Believe
Christian
Strong
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We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross
Paul Tournier / Physician
Doubt
Mystery
Suffering
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God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Feelings
Knowing
Light
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God's favorites, especially God's favorites, are not immune from the bewildering times when God seems silent. Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either. Faith demands uncertainty, confusion. The Bible includes many proofs of God's concern - some quite spectacular - but no guarantess. A guarantee would, after all, preclude faith.
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Opportunity
Faith
Religious
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The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at adulthood; between the time we leave doubt and arrive at faith. It is like the time when a trapeze artist lets go the bars and hangs in midair, ready to catch another support: it is a time of danger, of expectation, of uncertainty, of excitement, or extraordinary aliveness.
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Home
Artist
Letting Go
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In order to make a success of old age, one must begin it earlier, and not try to postpone it as long as possible. In the middle of life we must stop to think, to organize our existence with an eye to a still distant future, instead of allowing ourselves to be entirely sucked into the professional and social whirl. It is then that it is important to give place little by little to less external activities, less technical and more cultural, which will survive the moment of retirement.
Paul Tournier / Physician
Eye
Retirement
Thinking
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