Posted: 12/23/2009 8:29:21 PM EDT
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I was looking for a quote by Blaise Pascal and found a bunch of good one's by him. I had never read much on him
and found he was a pretty amazing guy. Not only a math genius but also a famous theologian. Pascal's Wager is very interesting. Quotes- “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” "Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.” "The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.” “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.” "He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright” “The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” "Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.” “Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.” “Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.” “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction” “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.” “Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.” “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.” “That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.” “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.” This is just a few of them. He was a pretty sharp guy. 
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