Blaise Pascal Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• 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.

• 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

• Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

  Blaise Pascal

  Silence, Saint, Silent

• Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Jesus, Joy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 176, 1895.

• If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, God, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.49, Courier Corporation

• Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

  Blaise Pascal

  Silence, Saint, Silent

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