When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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Quotes by Blaise Pascal
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
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.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
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