Today I was listening to a recent Bishop Barron Word on Fire podcast. He was talking about St. Thomas Aquinas, one of his favorite topics. He was explaining Thomas’s argument that God created everything out of love; that creation was…
Category: Faith
In Pensées, Blaise Pascal gives us this timeless insight: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” We do not like to be alone with our thoughts. We do not like to reflect…
The most effective political campaign message used to be, “Vote for me and I’ll solve every problem our country has.” This explains how every problem became a political problem — which in turn explains why our problems never get solved.…
Quotes from Pensées, by Blaise Pascal. “Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. “Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. “Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our…
In Pensées, Blaise Pascal makes an effective and paradoxical argument in favor of miracles. He says the existence of demonstrably false miracle claims proves, rather than refutes, the existence of true miracles. Why? Boiling it down, Pascal contends people’s experience…