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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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. – Blaise Pascal

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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. – Blaise Pascal

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I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I dont think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. – Jimmy Carter

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Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christs mystical body has connections to that principle. – Dennis Kucinich

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Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality. – Phillip E. Johnson

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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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I have always kept one end in view, namely . . . to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God. – Johann Sebastian Bach

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