Paulo Coelho Quotes

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

We come to church not to hide our problems but to heal them.

I know that all things are possible through Jesus Christ.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

The church is in the hope business.

There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.