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Blaise Pascal

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Blaise Pascal

Faith

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Pascal is saying that understanding or sensing God comes from our emotions and inner feelings rather than logical thinking or intellectual analysis. Faith, therefore, is about a deep, personal experience of God that cannot be proven or explained through reason alone.

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