#ai

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#before #despair #god #humble #jesus

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#gain #hesitation #lose #nothing #then

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

— Blaise Pascal

#certain #certain degree #degree #mind #only

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

#above #contrary #indeed #see #senses

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

— Blaise Pascal

#faith #former #gift #god #human

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#everyone #four #friends #him #i

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#painting #thoughts

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#against #be happy #death #fight #happy

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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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. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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