Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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Faith is a gift of God.
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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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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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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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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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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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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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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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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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