Blaise Pascal Quotes

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Where love is, there God is also.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

God is in my heart; I see God in my daughter and my mother.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

God dwells wherever man lets Him in.

I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.