QUOTATION: Mohammed vs. Jesus

Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

--Blaise Pascal

QUOTATION: Faith

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

--Blaise Pascal

QUOTATION: Beliefs

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

--Blaise Pascal, On the Art of Persuasion

QUOTATION: Love

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

--Blaise Pascal

QUOTATION: Noise

All of man’s problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

--Blaise Pascal

QUOTATION: Truth

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

--Blaise Pascal

QUOTATION: Worthiness

Man is not worthy of God; but he is not incapable of being made worthy of Him.

--Blaise Pascal, Pensees.

QUOTATION: Avoiding the Hard Questions

Men, not having been able to cure death, misery and ignorance, have imagined to make themselves happy by not thinking of these things.

--Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 2

QUOTATION: The Eucharist

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

--Blaise Pascal, Pensees