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
positive confidence sports
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
get-well nine needs
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.
tasks christ intensity
Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.
understanding links feels
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.
love marriage running
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.
christian two married
There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.
opportunity doubt
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.
christian strong believe
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.
inspirational adventurous-life kind
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.
retirement eye thinking
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.
love dream lonely
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
letting-go home artist
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.
emotional people age
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.
intolerance source dangerous
To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.