Blaise Pascal

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. ”

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. ”

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. ”

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. ”

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ”

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. ”

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ”

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. ”

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. ”

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. ”