Blaise Pascal Quotes

True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world a spell of health is the best state. What men call sovereignty is a worldly strife and constant war. Worship of God is the highest throne, the happiest of all estates.

The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

We have God's joy in our blood.