Paulo Coelho Quotes

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my mind of Heavenly Father being far away. As I have matured, my experience with prayer has changed. The picture in my mind has become one of a Heavenly Father who is close by, who is bathed in a bright light, and who knows me perfectly.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.

God is in my heart; I see God in my daughter and my mother.

I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I'd go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need." Inside is the storehouse of all that God is. He invites us to share it all. He doesn't intend for us to stay on the outside and struggle all alone with the perplexities of life, and He not only invites us to come in, but to stay in. . . . It is an on-going process, not just an occasional religious-sounding speech we make to a nebulous divinity "out there somewhere." Prayer is meant to be a part of our lives, like breathing and thinking and talking.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

God is near whether you sense His presence or not.

God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.

We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.