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 PASCALAll of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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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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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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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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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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