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Religion Quotes by Blaise Pascal

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Pascal contrasts how Muhammad built his faith through battle while Jesus asked followers to give their lives. He says many people fear religion and think it opposes reason, so they despise it. He warns that believing Christianity is false is a terrible mistake, because the truth matters.

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Faith is a gift of God.

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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

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You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But…

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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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I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being…

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“The true religion would have to teach greatness and wretchedness, inspire self-esteem and self-contempt, love and hate.”

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“The only religion which is against nature, against common sense and against our pleasures is the only one which has always existed.”

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“Christianity is strange: it requires human beings to recognize that they are vile and even abominable.”

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No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore…

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It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the…

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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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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that…

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If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of…

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To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that…

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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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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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The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with…

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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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“There are two ways of persuading men of the truths of our religion; one by the power of reason, the other by…

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“The Christian religion alone has been able to cure these twin vices, not by using one to expel the other according to…

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The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt…

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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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Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives

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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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The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

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Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if…

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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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To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be…

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“Jesus Christ and St Paul possess the order of charity, not of the mind, for they wished to humble, not to teach.”

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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

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“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of…

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“This religion so great in miracles, in men holy, pure and irreproachable, in scholars, great witnesses and martyrs, established kings - David…

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Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

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Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the…