Blaise Pascal Quotes about Faith

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

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

Blaise Pascal

Faith, Different, Proof

"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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.

Blaise Pascal

Faith, Wise, Gains

"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Blaise Pascal

Life, Faith, Christian

"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

Blaise Pascal

Faith, Limits, Reason

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

Blaise Pascal

Faith, Men, Made

Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew “Penses”, Hackett Publishing

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

Blaise Pascal

Faith, Silent, Deny

Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.539

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

Blaise Pascal

Faith, Spiritual, Sleep

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.110, Open Road Media

[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who should seek him sincerely, and that he has nevertheless so disguised them that he will only be perceived by those who seek him with all their heart.

Blaise Pascal

Faith, Heart, Two

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

Faith, Perception, Contrary

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter.

Blaise Pascal

Faith, Inspiration, Believe