The eternal being exists for ever if he once exists. - Blaise Pascal

I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state.

It is necessary to show that there is nothing so little known [as the above rules], nothing more difficult to practice, or nothing more useful and universal.