“Even when the Word of God strikes a man without warning, when there is a sudden conversion, and inner call, which changes all at once the direction of his life, he perceives that God has been speaking to him for a long time, that the dialogue was already going on in the darkness of the unconscious before it broke out into the full light of day. He realizes then that God is speaking to us all the time, through every thing and every person, that he speaks through the poets and the musicians, through children and through the aged; through the example of the saints and through anyone he chooses, through the flowers and the beasts, in our dreams and in events.”
Paul Tournier, The Meaning of Persons. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957, page 162.
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