Paul Tournier Quotes

I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

I'm a true believer that God puts us in situations to help us ultimately get to where we need to be.

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

The way and manner God executes His plan in our lives differs

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.