Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
Paul TournierYour 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 TournierThere are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.
Paul TournierGod'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.
Paul Tournier