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Blaise Pascal Quotes

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French Philosopher, Mathematician June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662

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Do not be astonished to see simple people believing without argument. God makes them love him and hate themselves. He inclines their hearts to believe. We shall never believe, with an effective belief and faith, unless God inclines our hearts. Blaise Pascal
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him."
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. Blaise Pascal
Once that is clearly understood, I think that each of us can stay quietly in the state in which nature has placed him. since the middle station allotted to us is always far from the extremes, what does it matter if someone else has a slightly better understanding of things? If he has, and if he takes them a little further, is he not still infinitely remote from the goal? Is not our span of life equally infinitesimal in eternity, even if it is extended by ten years? In the perspective of... Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend..."
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer,..."
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. Blaise Pascal
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy. Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external..."
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. Blaise Pascal
Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die and suffer for me at the time and in the circumstances foretold. By his grace I peaceably await death, in the hope of being eternally united to him, and meanwhile I live joyfully, whether in the blessings which he is pleased to bestow on me or in the affliction he sends me for my own good and taught me how to endure by his example. Blaise Pascal
The human being is only a reed, the most feeble in nature; but this is a thinking reed. It isn't necessary for the entire universe to arm itself in order to crush him; a whiff of vapor, a taste of water, suffices to kill him. But when the universe crushes him, the human being becomes still more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and the advantage that the universe has over him. The universe, it does not have a clue."All our dignity consists, then, in thought.... Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him,..."
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. Blaise Pascal
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this. Blaise Pascal
Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards. Blaise Pascal
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does... Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal quote: "He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may..."
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. Blaise Pascal

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