Paul Tournier

Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

Paul Tournier

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 Tournier

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

Paul Tournier

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

Paul Tournier

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

Paul Tournier

The 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 Tournier

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

Paul Tournier

There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.

Paul Tournier

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Paul Tournier

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