“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)
“If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world… Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty!”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875 – 1965)
“I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875-1965)
“At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875 -1965)