Paul Tournier Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.

  Paul Tournier

  Heart, Order, Long

  Paul Tournier (1967). “To Understand Each Other”, p.25, Westminster John Knox Press

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

  Paul Tournier

  Giving, Privilege, Highest

  Paul Tournier (2012). “The Meaning of Gifts”, p.39, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• 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.

  Paul Tournier

  Retirement, Eye, Thinking

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

• 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.

  Paul Tournier

  Retirement, Years, Giving

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

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