The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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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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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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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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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 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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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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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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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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