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Paul Tournier (12 May 1898 – 7 October 1986) was 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.

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Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

Christ, Intensity, Make, Tasks

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

Expression, Ordinary, Serious, Nothing, Dissatisfaction, Life

We do not posses God. We find him periodically.

God, Periodically, Posse, Posses

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

Being Wrong, Thing, Worst, Worst Things, Wrong

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

Begin, Full, Grand, Ideas, Littles, Motivation

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.

Our World, Deaf, Individual, Nations, Listen

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.

Adventurous Life, Fear, Forward, Inspirational, Kind, Spite

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 the state of modern medicine: It has lost the sense of the unity of man. Such is the price it has paid for its scientific progress. It has sacrificed art to science.

Art, Medicine, Men, Paid, Sacrificed, Separate

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.

Back, Feelings, Knowing, Light, Look, Whole

We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross

Cross, Doubt, Mystery, Religion, Suffering

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

Aloud, Leads, Mind, Spiritual, Thinking

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

Doubt, Faith, Longer, Opportunity

Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.

Age, Determining, Giving, Old, Retirement, Years

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.

Retirement, Eye, Thinking, Cultural, Think, Future

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.

Adulthood, Artist, Catch, Extraordinary, Home, Letting Go

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

Acceptance, Heart, Lovable, Personality

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Enemy, Men, Perspective, Tries, Woe

. . . the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

Giving, Privilege, Highest, Sign, Inner

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Dream, Lonely, Love, Nothing, Secrets

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.

Inspirational, Love, Marriage, Persons, Reach, Run

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