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Quotes About God

The humane aspects of Zoroastrianism probably accounted for its diminution as a faith, if not its failure. A religion needs harshness and hokum to succeed, and all Zarathustra taught was understanding the earthly elements, the turn of the year, the one God.
~ Paul Theroux
Monasticism is not about dogma; it is about God and an authentic spirituality. Its simple truths beckon to be rediscovered.
~ Unknown
discernment asks that we constantly be open, both to God's gentle nudges and to the many opportunities for grace that are constantly being presented.
~ Unknown
IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD No
~ Pauline Réage
Those who love God, and by Him abandoned in the dark of night, are guilty, /because/ they are abandoned. They cast back into their memories, searching for their sins.
~ Pauline Réage
Aquellos que aman a Dios y a los que Dios abandona en la oscuridad son culpables porque han sido abandonados. Buscan sus faltas en su memoria.
~ Pauline Réage
Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.
~ Paulo Coelho
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
~ Paulo Coelho
Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.
~ Paulo Coelho
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.
~ Paulo Coelho
Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreams are the language of God.
~ Paulo Coelho
I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.
~ Paulo Coelho
I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.
~ Paulo Coelho
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
~ Paulo Coelho
I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that's hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
~ Paulo Coelho
Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.
~ Paulo Coelho
The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances. How do I guess at the future? Based on the omens of the present. The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live ach day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
~ Paulo Coelho
The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.
~ Paulo Coelho
No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.
~ Paulo Coelho
LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.
~ Paulo Coelho