Paul Tournier Quotes - Page 2

• Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

  Paul Tournier

  May, Medical, Sickness

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• Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

  Paul Tournier

  Loyalty, Self, Needs

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• Tener razón es peligroso, siempre ha sido la fuente de toda intolerancia.

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  Intolerancia, Fuente, Peligrosa

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

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  Expression, Ordinary, Serious

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• Lo que ocurre entonces es como cuando separamos un rompecabezas en sus cuatrocientas piezas: La imagen global desaparece. Este es el estado de la medicina moderna: Ha perdido el sentido de la unidad del hombre. Tal es el precio que ha pagado por su progreso científico. Ha sacrificado el arte a la ciencia.

  Paul Tournier

  Arte, Hombres, Medicina

  Paul Tournier (1965). "La curación de las personas", HarperCollins

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• Escucha todas las conversaciones de nuestro mundo, tanto entre naciones como entre individuos. Son, en su mayoría, diálogos de sordos.

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  Nuestro Mundo, Sordo, Individual

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• Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

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  Religion, Endeavor

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• The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by step to correct his errors, whereas nothing will ever happen to him if he doesn't get going.

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  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Paul Tournier (1976). “Reflections: On Life's Most Crucial Questions”

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• 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.

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  Retirement, Years, Giving

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.13, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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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  Spiritual, Thinking, Mind

  Paul Tournier (1957). "El sentido de las personas"

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• El precio que hay que pagar para encontrar una vida verdaderamente personal es muy alto. Es un precio en términos de aceptación de la responsabilidad. Y la conciencia de la responsabilidad conduce inevitablemente a la desesperación o a la confesión y a la gracia.

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  Responsibility, Acceptance, Miracle

  "Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions".

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• 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.

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  Retirement, Eye, Thinking

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.12, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• La consecuencia más trágica de nuestras críticas a un hombre es bloquearle el camino hacia la humillación y la gracia, precisamente para conducirle a los mecanismos de la autojustificación y a sus faltas, en lugar de liberarle de ellas. Para él, nuestra voz ahoga la voz de Dios.

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  Bloqueo, Hombres, Auto

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• The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

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  Mind, Vulnerable, Subtle

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

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  Men, Perspective, Enemy

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• People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.

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  Emotional, People, Age

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.217, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

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  Joy, No Fear, Fear Of Failure

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• El verdadero sentido del viaje, como el de una conversación junto al fuego, es el descubrimiento de uno mismo a través del contacto con otras personas, y su condición es el compromiso de uno mismo en el diálogo.

  Paul Tournier

  Real, Commitment, Discovery

  Paul Tournier (1957). "El sentido de las personas"

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