Blaise Pascal Faith Quotes


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. Blaise Pascal Faith 96
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal Faith 68
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. Blaise Pascal Faith 67
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. Blaise Pascal Faith 65
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. Blaise Pascal Faith 48
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal Faith 46
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. Blaise Pascal Faith 45
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. Blaise Pascal Faith 39

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