Blaise Pascal Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

  Blaise Pascal

  Religious, Men, Grace

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.380

• As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.

  Blaise Pascal

  Beauty, Healing, Medicine

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

• The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

  Blaise Pascal

  Law, Giving, Grace

• If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

  Blaise Pascal

  Peace, Believe, Men

• For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Miracle, Grace

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.190, Courier Corporation

• There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

  Blaise Pascal

  Beauty, Song, Strong

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Grace, Mind

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.68, Cosimo, Inc.

• L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Errors, Grace

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.83 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

• He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Giving, Grace

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