Blaise Pascal Quotes about Charity

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All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Blaise Pascal

Charity, Scripture, Sole

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

Blaise Pascal

Order, Saint, Charity

"The Art of Persuasion". Book by Blaise Pascal, translated by O. W. Wright, www.bartleby.com. 2001.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Blaise Pascal

Hate, Men, Charity

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

Blaise Pascal Quotes about Charity

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