Blaise Pascal Quotes
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A jester, a bad character.
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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
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The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
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How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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The property of power is to protect.
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So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.
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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
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That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.
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Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.
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Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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By thought I embrace the universe.
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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.
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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
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That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]
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The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.