It is equally dangerous to man to know God without knowing his own wretchedness, and know his own wretchedness without knowing God.
— Blaise Pascal
The Future
The present is never our goal; the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.
— Blaise Pascal
If There Is a God
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose.
— Blaise Pascal
Law and Grace
The law demands what it cannot give; grace gives all it demands.
— Blaise Pascal
Searching for God
There are three kinds of people in the world; those who have sought God and found Him and now serve Him, those who are seeking Him, but have not yet found Him, and those who neither seek Him nor find Him. The first are reasonable and happy, the second reasonable and unhappy, and the third unreasonable and unhappy.
— Blaise Pascal
