Paulo Coelho Quotes

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.

If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.

There is no love without sacrifices.

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.