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There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.

Blaise Pascal's Popular Quotes

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

- Blaise Pascal

Let each of us examine his thoughts

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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through …

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Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to…

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We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine…

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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

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We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

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Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

- Blaise Pascal