Quotes about Faith by Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher

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

Quote by Blaise Pascal about faith

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.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about faith

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

Quote by Blaise Pascal about faith

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about faith

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

Quote by Blaise Pascal about faith

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

Quote by Blaise Pascal about faith

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.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about faith

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.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about faith