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
Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the… — 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
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“What must I do? I see nothing but obscurities on every side.' 'Shall I believe I am nothing? Shall I believe I… — 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
