Quotes by 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.

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.

Two things control mens nature, instinct and experience.

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.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who dont.

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

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to Gods providence to lead him aright.

Imagination decides everything.

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

All mens miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

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.

“It is mans natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”