“We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.”
Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)
“If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.”
Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)
“Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.”
Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses…it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.”
Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)
“God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind…”
Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)
“Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.”
Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)
“It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.”
Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)
“It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . ”
Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)
“How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing…If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. Then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything…”
Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)
“One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.”
Blaise Pascal (Physicist, Philosopher 1623 – 1662)