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
love dream lonely
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
giving privilege highest
...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.
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.
knowing light feelings
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.
faith adventure surrender
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.
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.
christian two married
There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.
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.
opportunity doubt
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.
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.
tasks christ intensity
Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.
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.
life change running
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.
school kids careers
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.