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Pride Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers…
- If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this,…
- Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
- Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
- Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the…
- Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
- What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all…
- The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of…
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