Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCALWe like to be deceived.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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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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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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