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.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

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.

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 and I gain everything.

Faith is a gift of God.

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.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

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.

There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

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.

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.

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.

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

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. . . .

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

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

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

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.

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

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?