Blaise Pascal Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Pride, Knowing

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

• Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Enemy, Islam

  Blaise Pascal, Isaac Taylor (1838). “Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy”, p.202

• Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Deeds, Littles

• Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Jesus, Life And Death

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

• Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Useless, Impossible

• How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Hate, Believe

• The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

  Blaise Pascal

  Faithful, Church, Ransom

  Blaise Pascal (1846). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.259

• Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Men, Darkness

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.177, Cosimo, Inc.

• Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Men, Enemy

• If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

  Blaise Pascal

  Peace, Believe, Men

• Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Hope, Pride, Despair

• Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Christ, Knowing God

• Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Jesus, Joy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 176, 1895.

• Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Christ, Knows

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.177, Cosimo, Inc.

• At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Vacuums, Christ

• The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Humble, Pride

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