God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.
Paul TournierThere are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.
Paul Tournier...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.
Paul TournierWe are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.
Paul TournierWe 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