Blaise Pascal God Quotations

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.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

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.

We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.

We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.