What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
BLAISE PASCALAll the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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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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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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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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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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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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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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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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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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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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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We like to be deceived.
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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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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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