Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
BLAISE PASCALJustice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
BLAISE PASCALHappiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
BLAISE PASCALCuriosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCALThere 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.
BLAISE PASCALOnce your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
BLAISE PASCALMost of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
BLAISE PASCALIf you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
BLAISE PASCALHaving been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
BLAISE PASCALIt 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 PASCALWhat a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
BLAISE PASCALNothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
BLAISE PASCALMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCALGreat and small suffer the same mishaps.
BLAISE PASCALEvil is easy, and has infinite forms.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
BLAISE PASCALGood deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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