Avoidance Quote by Paul Tournier

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

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

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

— Paul Tournier

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

— Paul Tournier

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

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