Paulo Coelho Quotes

God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.

We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

This is the first indication I have ever had that there is a God.

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.

I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie pawing earth over her bone - just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

It’s in the environment of worship that we learn things that go way beyond what our intellect can grasp

O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

I found Him in the shining of the stars.

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.

If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.

To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each moment -- what He requires of us, and to leave ourselves, our friends, and every interest at His control, with a cheerful trust that the path which He marks out leads to our perfection and to Himself, -- this is at once our duty and happiness; and why will we not walk in the plain, simple way?.

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do