Quotes
Authors
Paul Tournier

"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."

Source : Paul Tournier (1982). “Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions”, Westminster John Knox Press

Paul Tournier

#Knowing Quotes #Light Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”
“One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.”
“My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.”
“Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.”
“We were not finished yet, not even close. I could still smell her. I remembered what she felt like. What she tasted like. This wasnâ€™t a casual sexual thing. This was a mating. I would have Kate as my mate. Whatever it took, no matter how long, she would be with me.”
“Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.”
“I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.”

Source : Interview with Phil Hogan, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.
“I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.”

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