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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…
I’m reading Blaise Pascal’s Pensées, long considered a classic of Christian apologetics. Pensées (“Thoughts”) is a collection of fragmentary notes Pascal had been putting together in preparation for a systematic book of apologetics he did not live long enough to…
The definitions of love are too numerous to count. Here is one that I find incredibly powerful: “To love is to will the good of another.” — St. Thomas Aquinas Simple on the surface but rich with meaning, it’s hard…
“And now, here is a message from the Lord to Jacob, his creature, to the Israel he fashioned: Do not be afraid, I have bought thee for myself, and given thee the name thou bearest: thou belongest to me. Pass…