There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
BLAISE PASCALMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Faith is a gift of God.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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