*That if God's mercy is so great that he gives us salutary instruction even when he hides himself, what enlightenment ought we not to expect when he reveals himself?
*On SUBMISSION: One must know when it is right to doubt, to affirm, to submit. Anyone who does otherwise does not understand the force of reason. Some men run counter to these three principles, either affirming that everything can be proved, because they know nothing about proof, or doubting everything, because they do not know when to submit, or always submitting, because they do not know when judgement is called for.
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*The way of God, who disposes all things with gentleness, is to instill religion into our minds with reasoned arguments and into our hearts with grace, but attempting to instill it into hearts and minds with force & threats is to instill not religion but terror.
*We know our wretchedness, because this God is nothing less than our redeemer from wretchedness. Thus we can know God properly only y knowing our inequities. Those who have known God without knowing their own wretchedness have not glorified him but themselves.
*If we claim that a man is too slight to deserve communion with God, we must indeed be great to be able to judge.
*Instead of complaining that God has hidden himself, you will give him thanks for revealing himself as much as he has, and you will thank him to for not revealing himself to wise man full of pride and unworthy of knowing so holy a God.
*It would have been pointless for our Lord Jesus Christ to come as a king with splendour in his reign of holiness, but he truly come in splendour in his own order. It is quite absurd to be shocked at the lowliness of Jesus, as if his lowliness was of the same order as the greatness he came to reveal.
if we consider his greatness in his life, his passion, his obscurity, his death, in the way he chose his disciple in their desertion, in his secret resurrection and all the rest, we shall see that it is so great that we have no reason to be shocked at a lowliness which has nothing to do with it.
*The extent of a man's virtue ought not to be measures by his effort but by his usual behaviour.
* It is so obvious that we must love one God alone that there is no need of miracles to prove it.
*Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. He does not consist merely of a God who extends his providence over the life and property of men so as to grant a happy span of years to those who worship him.
The God of the Christians is a God of love & consolation: He is a God who makes them inwardly aware of their wretchness & his infinite mercy, who unites himself with them.
*There is some pleasure in being n board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing. The persecutions buffering the Church are like this.
*Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher.
