| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43780 |
| QUOTATION: | The conduct of God who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace. But to attempt to put it into the mind and heart by force and threats is not to put religion there, but terror. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 185 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Pascal Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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