Paulo Coelho Quotes

God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

Sometimes, I have to beat myself first in order to beat the other guy. And that sucks. I'm not gonna lie. But that's me.

We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.

It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.

I was raised to believe that you're safe in God's hands. But I don't feel safe with myself.

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.