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.
BLAISE PASCALIf a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Imagination decides everything.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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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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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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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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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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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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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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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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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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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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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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