Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
BLAISE PASCALIn faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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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.
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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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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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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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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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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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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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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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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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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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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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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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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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