Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Blaise PascalInstead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
Blaise PascalThe greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.
Blaise PascalThe man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal