Matthew Scott

“What kept you at the oasis was your own fear that you might never come back”
― Paul Coelho

“He saw that omens were scattered throughout the earth and in space, and that there was no reason or significance attached to their appearance; he could see that not the deserts, nor the winds, nor the sun, nor people knew why they had been created. But that the hand had a reason for all of this, and only the hand could perform miracles, or transform the sea into a desert... or a man into the wind. Because only the hand understood that it was a larger design that had moved the universe to the point at which six days of creation had evolved into a master work.
The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.”
― Paul Coelho

“(Speaking of Jesus) His manner of teaching though, was nothing like that of a philosopher. Those who paraded their virtue and condemned the faults of others, he dismissed as painted tombs heaving with maggots and corruption. The standards of virtue he preached - to love one's enemy, to abandon all one's worldly goods - were so demanding as to seem impossible to meet. He was peculiarly tender with sinners. He dined with Jews who violated the law and talked beside wells with adulterers.”
― Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

“The closer one gets to realising his Personal Legend, the more that Personal Legend becomes his true reason for being”
― Paul Coelho