Ends Quote by Paulo Coelho

He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.

— Nicholas Sparks

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of…

— John Lennon

It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

— Jack Kerouac

That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and…

— Brother Lawrence

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more…

— Anonymous

Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me…

— Hudson Taylor

I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

— Greg Bryk

God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean…

— Jack Kerouac

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

— Lauren F. Winner

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were…

— Leo Tolstoy

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions…

— Tom Clancy