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If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense.
God, Forever, Eternal When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.
27 maj 1998 · “If there were no obscurity,” Pascal says, “man would not feel his corruption: if there were no light man could not hope for a cure.” God not only hides Himself to test our will; He also does it so that we can only come to Him through Christ, not by working through some logical proofs.
Contemplation of Jesus in the Gospels is the essential discipline that makes discernment possible. The practice of imaginative prayer teaches us who Jesus is and how he acts and how he decides. This kind of contemplation schools our hearts and guides us to the decisions that bring us closer to God.
27 wrz 2023 · In his powerful quote, French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal delves into the intriguing intricacies of human nature, asserting that there are only two types of individuals: those who consider themselves righteous despite their inherent flaws, and those who recognize their own shortcomings while still striving for righteousness.
10 wrz 2024 · To philosophize is always to rehabilitate the essential importance of the human dimension, and hence the dignity of man. This was the meaning of the Socratic quest, and also the meaning of Pascal's anguish at the threshold of the Cartesian revolution in science.
We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them. If God gave us masters by His own hand, oh! how necessary for us to obey them ...
