Quotes by Paul Tournier

Paul Tournier

…the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

Giving

Highest

Privilege

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.

Change

Life

Running

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

Acceptance

Heart

Personality

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.

Believe

Christian

Strong

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.

Family

Life

Marriage

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.

Feelings

Knowing

Light

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.

Faith

Opportunity

Religious

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.

Get Well

Needs

Nine

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

Fear Of Failure

Joy

No Fear

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.

Eye

Retirement

Thinking

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Adventure

Adventurous Life

Age

Art

Artist

Being Wrong

Believe

Block

Blue

Change

Christ

Christian

Clear

Commitment

Confidence

Dangerous

Deaf

Discovery

Doubt

Dream

Emotional

Endeavor

Enemy

Errors

Expression

Eye

Faith

Family

Fear Of Failure

Feelings

Get Well

Giving

Heart

Highest

Home

Ideas

Individual

Inspirational

Intensity

Intolerance

Joy

Kind

Knowing

Letting Go

Life

Light

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Lonely

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Quotes by Paul Tournier

Paul Tournier

…the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

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.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

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.

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.

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

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