Blaise Pascal on Religion
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Blaise Pascal, catalogued under Religion, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Blaise Pascal, entry #127981: "Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives."
Attributed to Blaise Pascal, entry #13657: "God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it."
3 Quotes by Blaise Pascal on Religion
"Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives."
"God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it."
"I do not speak here of divine truths... because they are infinitely superior to nature: God alone can place them in the soul... I know that he has desired that they should enter from the heart into the mind, and not from the mind into the heart, to humiliate that proud power of reasoning that pretends to the right to be the judge of the things that the will chooses; and to cure this infirm will which is wholly corrupted by its filthy attachments."