No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
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. — 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… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
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
