Blaise Pascal Quotes

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

The lyrics are a lot about those big questions: why are we here, how did we get here, what's the point, and what's next. When those questions come up with fans, I would absolutely share with them what has helped me and where I stand on what it is that I believe.

I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.

Many have told me through the years: 'I think I'll take my chances without Jesus.' And I always come back and say, 'So what chance is that?'

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

I think our culture right now is a culture that's trying to find itself. They're trying to figure out what is it? Is it social media followers? Is it trying to be popular? Is it money? Is it fame? Is it power? They're searching for identity and so many of us have been there, and we'll get back to that place of what is our identity? Who are we? More importantly, whose are we? For me, I find my identity in a relationship with Christ.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.

Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.