Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which … - Paul Tournier

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"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

Paul Tournier

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

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The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

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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.

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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.

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Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.

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

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I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life. . . I. . . believe that Waengongi, the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written.

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