Quote by Blaise Pascal
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. – Blaise Pascal

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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. – Blaise Pascal

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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal

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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. – Dean Inge

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The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. – Paul Wellstone

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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth. – Owen Glendower

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