Our walk through the truths of Pascal continues… …if there be a true religion on earth, the course of all things must tend to it as to a centre. (Pascal, 556) Our own ineptness reveals to us something greater. For it is never more clear to man that he is not god more so […]
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I know what you’re thinking. “She’s just trying to get me to study more math.” To which I’d reply, “You are correct. Mostly” The fact is that the lack of complete understanding in our study of mathematics reveals a great truth to us that goes beyond the classroom. It is for this purpose that we
“Faith is different from proof; the one is human, the other is a gift of God. Justus ex fide vivit. It is this faith that God Himself puts into the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument, fides ex auditu; but this faith is in the heart, and makes us not say scio,
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We continue our tour of Blaise Pascal’s thoughts today where we left off: It is when a man embraces his ‘whole duty… to think as he ought’ (126) that he is faced with his inadequacies within himself. We must look outward, at something higher than ourselves “According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to
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Since Thanksgiving is just around the corner, thankfulness has been on my mind. I recently came across Ecclesiastes 7:10: “Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.” Guilty. I have constantly longed for a fantasy conjured up by blissful scenes from Anne of
