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Blaise Pascal on Easter

1623–1662 France

← All quotes by Blaise Pascal

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pensées (1669)

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Pensées (1669)

Man holds an inward talk with his self alone, which it behooves him to regulate well.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pensées (1669)

The incredulous are the most credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses.

Pensèes (1669)

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pensées (1669)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Blaise Pascal (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.