Blaise Pascal Quotes

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

I try to act out of faith.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

There is more truth in honest doubt, Believe me, than in all the creeds.

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'

In this quest to seek and find God in all things there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good. For me, this is an important key. If one has the answers to all the questions—that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.