Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
BLAISE PASCALHappiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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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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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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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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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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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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