Blaise Pascal Quotes

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

I believe in things that have proof.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.

To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.