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.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is a gift of God.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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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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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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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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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 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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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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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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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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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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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 faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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