Quotes from Blaise Pascal

May God never abandon me.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

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

It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.