Blaise Pascal Quotes on God (19 Quotes)

Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion beyond this, he has no further need of God.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them

'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob,' not of philosophers and scholars.

Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.

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

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.

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.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself and you will also give Him thanks for not having revealed Himself to haughty sages, unworthy to know so holy a God.

What does this desire and this inability of ours proclaim to us but that there was once in man a genuine happiness, of which nothing now survives but the mark and the empty outline and this he vainly tries to fill from everything that lies around him, seeking from things that are not there the help that he does not get from those that are present Yet they are quite incapable of filling the gap, because this infinite gulf can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object - that is, God, Himself. He alone is man's veritable good, and since man has deserted Him it is a strange thing that there is nothing in nature that has not been capable of taking His place for man stars, sky, earth, elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents, fever, plague, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest. And since he has lost the true good, everything can equally appear to him as such - even his own destruction, though that is so contrary at once to God, to reason, and to nature.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

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

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

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

The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.