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… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Tournier Copy Share
In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
