Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 233.
2010s, Address to the United States Congress, Mercy Is 'What Pleases God Most
“God would be unjust if we were not guilty.”
Dieu serait injuste si nous n'étions pas coupables.
Blaise Pascal, Pensées: It is necessary that we were born guilty, or God would be unjust [Il faut que nous naissions coupables, ou Dieu serait injuste]. This is Pensée 431 in the Édition Gallimard, 1962. It is found in the section entitled "The Signs of True Religion" [Les Marques de la Vraie Religion]
English text, #489 http://www.ccel.org/ccel/pascal/pensees.viii.html; French text, #205 http://www.ac-nice.fr/philo/textes/Pascal-PenseesManu.htm
Misattributed
Hell Is the Absence of God; first appeared in Starlight 3, 2001.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
“Among the very names of God, we hear: the Compassionate, the All-Merciful.”
Address to the European Parliament (2015)
Context: I and countless other Muslims, have been taught from our earliest years that our religion demanded respect and caring for others. The Prophet Mohammad, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “None of you has faith until you love for your neighbour what you love for yourself.”
This is what it means to be a Muslim.
Among the very names of God, we hear: the Compassionate, the All-Merciful. All my life, every day, I have heard and used the greeting, Assalamu aleikum — a wish for the other to be blessed with peace.
This is what it means to be a Muslim.
More than a thousand years before the Geneva Conventions, Muslim soldiers were ordered not to kill a child, a woman or an old person, not to destroy a tree, not to harm a priest, not to destroy a church.
These are the same values of Islam we were taught in school as children: not to destroy or desecrate a place where God is worshipped, not a mosque, not a church, not a synagogue.
This is what it means to be a Muslim. These are the values I teach my children and they will hand on to theirs.
Page 45.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
“God is as just as He is merciful.”
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
Fab. IX: Of the Lyon and the Mouse, Moral
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
Thomas Edison ""No Immortality of the Soul" says Thomas A. Edison. In Fact, He Doesn't Believe There Is a Soul — Human Beings Only an Aggregate of Cells and the Brain Only a Wonderful Machine, Says Wizard of Electricity". New York Times. October 2, 1910
1910s
“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”
Variant: God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
