Quotes from Blaise Pascal

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.