Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascalwas a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth19 June 1623
CityClermont-Ferrand, France
CountryFrance
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.
Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
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.
Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .
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.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.