Blaise Pascal quotes

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
- Blaise Pascal

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
- Blaise Pascal

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
- Blaise Pascal

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
- Blaise Pascal

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
- Blaise Pascal

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
- Blaise Pascal

Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.
- Blaise Pascal

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
- Blaise Pascal

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
- Blaise Pascal

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
- Blaise Pascal

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
- Blaise Pascal

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

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
- Blaise Pascal

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
- Blaise Pascal

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
- Blaise Pascal

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
- Blaise Pascal

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
- Blaise Pascal

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
- Blaise Pascal

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

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

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
- Blaise Pascal