The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.
Blaise PascalHappiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
Blaise PascalHow shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
Blaise PascalThe present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
Blaise PascalOne-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.
Blaise Pascal