Paulo Coelho Quotes

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.

I am trying to get closer to God.

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.

Getting older is a fact of life.

I used to love getting older.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have an empty spot at the center of him, which must be filled in order to be really happy. That spot, like it or not, is reserved for God.

There's always time to grow older. You can never grow younger.

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.

...the single most important issue in all of life (is) your relationship with the living God... how you can know Him in a personal and meaningful way.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

We are older by faith than by experience.

If u desire to grow in your relationship w God - don't do it alone. Find a community of people heading in the same direction.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.