“Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.”

Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)

“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 (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)

“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 contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.”

Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)

“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 (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)

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

Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)

“If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn’t find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.”

Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)

“It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.”

Louis Agassiz (Biologist, Geologist 1807-1873)

“I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.”

Louis Agassiz (Biologist, Geologist 1807 – 1873)

“Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.”

Louis Agassiz (Biologist, Geologist 1807 – 1873)

“I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.”

Louis Agassiz (Biologist, Geologist 1807 – 1873)