People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
BLAISE PASCALLord, 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!
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
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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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Imagination decides everything.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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We like to be deceived.
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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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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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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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