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Religion Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
- Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we…
- Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure,…
- Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not…
- The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are…
- If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
- That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
- You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
- Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise,…
- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
- Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
- Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
- If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things…
- If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion…
- No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the…
- Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives
- So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and…
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