Paulo Coelho Quotes

Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.

Faith is Doubt.

I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, 'Eh, I think she can handle more.' And the angels thinking, 'What are you doing? You're a lunatic.' And God being like, 'No, no, trust me. She can handle this.'

Each of us has to face the matter — either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

I trust men only because I trust God.

Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

You see, this people [Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, etc.] simply believed that God existed in the situation they were faced with, and they trusted Him rather than themselves. The result? God said, "That pleases Me." They were men and women just like you and I, which is the most encouraging part of all. We don't find golden haloes, or perfect backgrounds, or sinless lives, we just find people. People who failed, who struggled, who doubted, who experienced hard times and low times in which their faith was eclipsed by doubt. But their lives were basically characterized by faith.

The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

I've always believed in God. I'm just not so sure he believes in me.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

It is a really good question. The other day I was praying over something as I was running, and I ended up saying to God, ‘Look, this is all very well, but isn’t it about time you did something, if you’re there?’ Which is probably not what the archbishop of Canterbury should say.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.