Blaise Pascal Quotes

Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.

The seed of every sin is in every heart.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

I've committed adultery in my heart.

Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.