Paulo Coelho Quotes

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

I believe in angels, so it's simple.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

I just take every day on faith.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I can't believe in God, as such, he's either too big or too small for me, and always incomprehensible, unbelievable.

It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

My secret is simple -- I pray.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

We're not always going to understand why something happens.True faith is trusting even when it doesn't make sense

Can I believe in that God too?