Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
BLAISE PASCALLove has reasons which reason cannot understand.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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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.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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