Blaise Pascal Quotes About Charity

Quotes about: Charity

• Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

  Blaise Pascal

  Order, Saint, Charity

  "The Art of Persuasion". Book by Blaise Pascal, translated by O. W. Wright, www.bartleby.com. 2001.

• We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Idols, Age

  "Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

• All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

  Blaise Pascal

  Charity, Scripture, Sole

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.

• All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

  Blaise Pascal

  Hate, Men, Charity

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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