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
“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit… — 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
The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all. — 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
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
“Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known… — 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
“Christianity is strange: it requires human beings to recognize that they are vile and even abominable.” — 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
Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race,… — 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
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him,… — 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
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