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• Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

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  Two, Suffering, Excess

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.133, David C Cook

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• I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

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  Appreciation, Giving Up, Believe

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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, Wise, Gains

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

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  Lying, Men, Thinking

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

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• All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

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  Practice, Maxims, Remains

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• 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.

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  Christian, Jesus, Life And Death

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

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

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  Faith, Different, Proof

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

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  Believe, Heart, Men

  Blaise Pascal, Thomas Adam (1833). “Thoughts on religion”, p.38

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• All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

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  Letting Go, Being Alone, Feelings

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

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  Giving, Vision, Sincere

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.317, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

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  Too Much, Enough, Ifs

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• What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

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  Differences, Knowing, Loving Him

  Blaise Pascal (1962). “Pensées”

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• 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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  God, Heart, Existentialism

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

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• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.

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  Hate, Men, Good Man

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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• The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

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• Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

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  Men, Fool, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.222

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• Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

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  Beautiful, Men, People

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• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

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  Strength, Umpires, Justice

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.

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  Christian, Heart, Humility

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

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  Prayer, Each Day, Rooms

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• What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

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  Divinity, Bears, Earth

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• There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

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  Light, Desire, Obscurity

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

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  Real, Doubt, Needs

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• Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

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  Truth And Falsehood, Knows, Falsehood

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

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  Looks, Want, Found

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