Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements...… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
