“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”
– Blaise Pascal
“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”
– Blaise Pascal
“That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.”
– Blaise Pascal
“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.”
– Blaise Pascal
“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”
– Blaise Pascal
“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.”
– Blaise Pascal
“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
– Blaise Pascal
“There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
– Blaise Pascal
“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”
– Blaise Pascal
“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”
– Blaise Pascal
“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.”
– Blaise Pascal
“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”
– Blaise Pascal
“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.”
– Blaise Pascal
“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
– Blaise Pascal
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.”
– Blaise Pascal
“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
– Blaise Pascal
“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”
– Blaise Pascal