God Quote by Blaise Pascal — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”

“And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love”

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”

“When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.”

“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”

“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”

“But is it godly to punish your subjects for questioning you? Is it motherly to demand resolute devotion?”

“We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are each of them specified; and are not allowed to us as weaknesses, but enjoined on us as our bounden duty, and commended to us as our acceptable worship.”

“Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life.”

“No one knows the Truth, but those who have the Truth”

“God might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.”