Paul Tournier
Paul Tournier
Paul Tournierwas a Swiss physician and author who had acquired a worldwide audience for his work in pastoral counseling. His ideas had a significant impact on the spiritual and psychosocial aspects of routine patient care, and he has been called the twentieth century's most famous Christian physician...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 May 1898
CountrySwitzerland
Paul Tournier quotes about
retirement years giving
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.
heart order giving
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.
giving privilege highest
...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.
responsibility acceptance miracle
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... What is needed is a new outlook, a personal revolution, a miracle.. It comes by grace, through the encounter with God, through dialogue with him.
mind vulnerable subtle
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
spiritual thinking mind
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
motivation ideas littles
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.
doubt suffering mystery
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
endeavor
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
posse
We do not posses God. We find him periodically.
real commitment discovery
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.
blue years vitality
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.
loyalty self needs
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.
our-world deaf individual
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.