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
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.
mistake men things-in-life
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.
men perspective enemy
Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.
block men self
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.
expression serious ordinary
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
worst worst-things being-wrong
The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.
feelings understanding world
No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.
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.
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.
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.
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.
may medical sickness
Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.
heart acceptance personality
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.