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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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• 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). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• We do not posses God. We find him periodically.

  Paul Tournier

  Posse

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• 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 doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either. Faith demands uncertainty, confusion. The Bible includes many proofs of God's concern - some quite spectacular - but no guarantess. A guarantee would, after all, preclude faith.

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  Faith, Religious, Opportunity

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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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• To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.

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  Intolerance, Source, Dangerous

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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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• 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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  Blue, Years, Vitality

  Paul Tournier (1965). “The Healing of Persons”, HarperCollins

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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.

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  Loyalty, Self, Needs

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

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  May, Medical, Sickness

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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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• 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.

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  Motivation, Ideas, Littles

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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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• The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.

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

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  Mind, Vulnerable, Subtle

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• The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.

  Paul Tournier

  Real, Commitment, Discovery

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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