Quotes & Sayings About Faith Paulo Coelho

Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life. — Paulo Coelho

God was there, and yet people believed that they had to go on looking, because it seemed to simple to accept that life was as act of faith. — Paulo Coelho

Religion teaches that faith and transformation are the only ways of drawing near to God. Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery. — Paulo Coelho

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains. — Paulo Coelho

And he always checks that he carries three things with him: faith, hope, and love. — Paulo Coelho

God never abandons His children. — Paulo Coelho

The truth is that we don't want to be saved by in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion. It isn't like that with love - it arrives, moves in, and starts directing everything. — Paulo Coelho

May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul. — Paulo Coelho

Because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith. — Paulo Coelho

Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice. — Paulo Coelho

That Faith cannot be explained. It was simply a Dark Night. And all she had to do was to accept it or not. — Paulo Coelho

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did. — Paulo Coelho

Life always teaches us more than the Road to Santiago...But we don't have much faith in what life teaches us. — Paulo Coelho

People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon. — Paulo Coelho

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.
Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side. — Paulo Coelho

I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears. — Paulo Coelho

Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?"
"Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. — Paulo Coelho

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith. — Paulo Coelho

God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around. — Paulo Coelho

I lost the most precious thing a man can have: my faith in my fellow man. I laughed and I wept at God's irony, at the absurd way he had chosen to demonstrate to me that I was an instrument of Good and Evil. — Paulo Coelho

We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time.
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. — Paulo Coelho

He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books. — Paulo Coelho

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of
this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside. — Paulo Coelho

It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights ... — Paulo Coelho

I seek God even though I don't believe in Him. — Paulo Coelho

I'm filled with doubt, especially about my faith. — Paulo Coelho

Nothing happens without effort. You have to have faith. And for that, you have to break down the barriers of prejudice, which requires courage. To have courage, you must conquer your fears. And so on and so forth. Let's make peace with our days. We can't forget that life is on our side. It also wants to get better. Let's help it out! — Paulo Coelho

These are people who accept the fire of the Holy Spirit,' he said, 'the fire that is left behind but that is used by so few people to light their candles. — Paulo Coelho

The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to ... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny. — Paulo Coelho

Faith transforms poison into crystalline water — Paulo Coelho

Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears. We follow its winding and luminous paths, we let ourselves go to the highest peak or the deepest seas, but we trust in the hand that leads us. If we do not allow ourselves to be frightened, we will always awaken in a palace; if we fear the steps that will be required by love and want to reveal everything to us, the result is that we will be left with nothing. — Paulo Coelho

Truth resides where there is faith. — Paulo Coelho

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong. — Paulo Coelho

Everything we seek so enthusiastically before we reach adulthood - love, work, faith - turns into a burden too heavy to bear. There is only one way to escape this: love. To love is to transform slavery into freedom. But right now, I can't love. I just feel hate. — Paulo Coelho

Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained. — Paulo Coelho

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage. — Paulo Coelho

Why is Love more important than Faith? Because Faith is merely the road that leads us to the Greater Love. — Paulo Coelho

Suggestions for further reading Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem; Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones; Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha; Deepak Chopra, God: A Story of Revelation; Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet; Lawrence Kushner, Kabbalah: A Love Story; C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity; Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith; Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now — Paulo Coelho

Every man's day is a dark night , no one knows what's coming up the next moment . though we keep going forward because we have faith . because we believe . — Paulo Coelho

Punish us because we are different. Because we have dared to dream, and to believe in those
things no one else any longer believes in.
"Punish us because we challenged what exists, what everyone else accepts, what most others
want to remain unchanged.
"Punish us because we speak of faith, and we feel hopeless. We speak of love, but we receive
neither the affection nor the comfort we feel we deserve. We speak of freedom, and we are
prisoners to our own guilt. — Paulo Coelho

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith. — Paulo Coelho

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality. — Paulo Coelho

Every moment in life is an act of faith — Paulo Coelho

Life is an act of faith. — Paulo Coelho

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments - but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken. — Paulo Coelho

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy. — Paulo Coelho

For a long time, the journey will seem like a Dark Night, but then any search is an act of faith. — Paulo Coelho

Courage. By beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in God, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive. — Paulo Coelho

He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith ! — Paulo Coelho

It is not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith. — Paulo Coelho

Love is an act of faith in another pesron, not an act of surrender. — Paulo Coelho

If everyone played their part, no one else would have to suffer, because He had suffered for all those who'd had the courage to fight for their dreams. — Paulo Coelho

Everything depends on One Word : "Maktub" ! — Paulo Coelho

Athena always lived between two worlds: what she felt was true and what she as been taught by her faith. — Paulo Coelho

Blessed be those who say: 'I'm not brave enough.' Because they know that it is not someone else's fault. And sooner or later, they will find the necessary faith to confront solitude and it's mysteries. — Paulo Coelho

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us, ... — Paulo Coelho

Fans who lack the faith can make a team lose a game it is already winning. — Paulo Coelho

In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is. — Paulo Coelho

He though does not always have faith. — Paulo Coelho

We were born alone, and we will die alone. But while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people. — Paulo Coelho

No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith. — Paulo Coelho

Today I feel like Psyche on the cliff, cold and afraid. But if I can overcome this night and give in to the mystery and faith in life, I will awake in a palace. All I need is time. — Paulo Coelho

A man's message of Faith lies in the way he lives his life and not in the words he says. — Paulo Coelho

In order to have a spiritual life, you need not enter a seminary, or fast, or abstain, or take a vow of chastity. All you have to do is have faith and accept God. From then on, each of us becomes a part of His path. We become vehicles for His miracles. — Paulo Coelho

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. — Paulo Coelho

Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender. — Paulo Coelho

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter. — Paulo Coelho

You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229) — Paulo Coelho

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. — Paulo Coelho