Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
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If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
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Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
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How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.
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Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.
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Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
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Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.
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We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.
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The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.
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Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?
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[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
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The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
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If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.
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One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.