Paul Tournier Quotes

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

We are made to know and love God.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.

I felt the Lord at a young age. And it was one of those things where that seed was planted, you know, when I was a kid.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.