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If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense.
God, Forever, Eternal When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.
Blaise Pascal. Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.” ― Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
20 kwi 2003 · Joy in God outstrips all earthly joy. You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound. (Psalm 4:7) If your joy is in God, no one can take your joy from you. You have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. (John 16:22)
Everything in this world is presented to us “so that we can know God more easily and make a return of love more readily.” Thus, “our only desire and our one choice should be this: I want and I choose what better leads to God’s deepening life in me.”
