Blaise Pascal

“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”

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

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”

“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.”

“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”

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

“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

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

“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.”