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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More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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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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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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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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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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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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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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There 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.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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We like to be deceived.
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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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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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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say 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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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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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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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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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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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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