Blaise Pascal Quotes

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

Blaise Pascal

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• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• Compassion is not a popular virtue.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Popular
  • Compassion
  • Virtue

• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Gold
  • Virtue

• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Virtue

• To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • True
  • Hand
  • Virtue

• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beauty
  • Virtue
  • Mask

• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Reward

• Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Progress
  • Virtue

• As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Virtue
  • Concerned
  • Prefer

• Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Virtue
  • Vice
  • Desiring

• Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Virtue
  • Effect
  • Prudence

• Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • World
  • Virtue
  • Humor

• The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Alone

• We are not asking everyone to do everything. We are simply asking all members to pray, knowing that if every member, young and old, will reach out to just “one” between now and Christmas, millions will feel the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. And what a wonderful gift to the Savior.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Jesus
  • Christmas
  • Pray

• Focus on fruitful relationships that bring you closer to Jesus Christ.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Focus
  • Jesus
  • Relationships

• I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

  

  Beverly D'Angelo
  • Knows
  • Christmas
  • Misery

• Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Confused

• So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Long
  • Jesus
  • Human

• If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Virtue
  • Disposition

• At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Human being
  • Jesus Christ

• He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Virtue
  • Gentleman
  • Deserts

• Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Casualty

• That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Say
  • Punishment
  • Push

• Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Virtue
  • Jesus Christ
  • Misery