Quotes by Blaise Pascal about Faith

11 quotes by Blaise Pascal about faith

Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain...

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

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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.

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not...

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see, it is above, not against them.

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each...

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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Faith is different from proof, the latter is human, the...

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

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In faith there is enough light for those who want to...

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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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to...

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love, so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason....

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.

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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and...

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in...

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

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