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Paul Tournier quotes

Swiss Author May 12, 1898 – October 7, 1986

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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
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. 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 accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. Paul Tournier
Now, we shall be able to judge the extent of the spiritual undernourishment if we look at all these movements from another angle: not as errors but rather as attempts to find healing. I use this comparison: For a long time medical men combated fever as if it itself constituted the illness. Medicine today inclines rather to respect it, not only as a symptom of the disease but of the struggle of the organism against the disease. True, it is this struggle which makes it ill, and yet this very... Paul Tournier
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 Paul Tournier
Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not eliminated. Herein lies, I believe, the essence of the tragedy of modern times. The modern man lives as if Christianity were a negligible hypothesis with no relation to the concrete realities of the world and society. And yet at the bottom of his heart this man remains impregnated with Christianity, so that he lives in a state of perpetual ambivalence with regard... Paul Tournier
I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an artist without being neurotic. Again I found in them that inner conflict which is characteristic of modern man: the conflict between a right intuition (namely, that their vocation has fundamental importance for the destiny of humanity) and a false idea (namely, that art is superfluous luxury). Paul Tournier
Paul Tournier quote: "At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of..."
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance. Paul Tournier
Paul Tournier quote: "Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is..."
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either. Paul Tournier
Paul Tournier quote: "Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets."
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. Paul Tournier
Paul Tournier quote: "Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Paul Tournier
Paul Tournier quote: "The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable..."
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are. Paul Tournier
Paul Tournier quote: "Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us..."
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves. 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 deaf. Paul Tournier

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