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.
Paul TournierThat 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.
Paul TournierThe 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.
Paul TournierAt the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
Paul Tournier