Faith Quotes by Blaise Pascal

Faith is a gift of God.

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I know whom I have believed.

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We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

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It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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“There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.”

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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

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To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

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Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to…

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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not…

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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against…

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It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by…

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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral…

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It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other…

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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…

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[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known…

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All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one…

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart…

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“Do not be astonished to see simple people believing without argument. God makes them love him and hate themselves. He inclines their…

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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…

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its…

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The will is one of the chief factors in belief, not that it creates belief, but because things are true or false…

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There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit…

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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and…

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No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline…

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We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them.…

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There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of…

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The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which…

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