Paul Tournier Quotes

If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts

I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

My desire is to walk with God every day.

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.

I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't think it concerns too many people.

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

No one can truly know Christ unless they follow him in life.

We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience

Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ... Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.

God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.

Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.

If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him known and loved by many of your friends and contemporaries.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.