When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise PascalWe make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.
Blaise PascalWhen a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.
Blaise PascalLet a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.
Blaise Pascal