Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
BLAISE PASCALHuman beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
BLAISE PASCALHappiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
BLAISE PASCALIf 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.
BLAISE PASCALGreat and small suffer the same mishaps.
BLAISE PASCALEveryone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
BLAISE PASCALIf a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
BLAISE PASCALMankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
BLAISE PASCALLord, 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!
BLAISE PASCALThere is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
BLAISE PASCALThe heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
BLAISE PASCALWhat a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
BLAISE PASCALAll our dignity lies in our thoughts.
BLAISE PASCALThe entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
BLAISE PASCALThere is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
BLAISE PASCALAnd 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?
BLAISE PASCALPeople 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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