Blaise Pascal Quotes

God helps those who fear Him.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

God asks us, in trusting Him, to risk everything on a future for which we have not planned, while Satan asks us to give up just one little thing, an unborn child, to keep control over our lives and save everything we have planned for. The devil uses despair, the fear of losing what we have, to make us do things.

People who don't believe in God are no happier than people who do, and those who do believe are no nicer than those who don't.

Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

Sometimes as a man, you fear what you can't see. Nobody can predict the future. You don't know what's going to happen. Tomorrow's not promised. The only thing you can do is live your life, hope for the best, continue to have faith, believe in yourself.

Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.

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

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.