After an intense and enjoyable conversation about Jesus with a grad student who claimed to be an atheist, I cited Pascal's seemingly wise words as my closing argument. I asked, “So do you want to choose Jesus because if you do and we find he doesn’t exist, you will have lost nothing?” She replied, “No. That would be crazy.”

When someone is the slightest bit curious about God and spiritual things, that's evidence that God loves them and wants them to know him personally. He stirred their interest.