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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…
Fancies Versus Fads is a 1923 collection of 30 previously published essays by G.K. Chesterton, covering a wide range of topics including modernity, feminism, divorce, poetry, drama, literature, education, progressivism, and prohibition. Here Chesterton is at his wittiest, most penetrating,…
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Originally…