Posts Tagged “pensées”
Wretchedness, Pascal and Grace
by i.burgess on November 11, 2011
If there were no obscurity, man would not be sensible of his corruption; if there were no light, man would not hope for a remedy. Thus, it is not only fair, but advantageous to us, that God be partly hidden and partly revealed; since it is equally dangerous for man to know God without knowing [...]
We only hope to live
by i.burgess on May 30, 2011
We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate the future as too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not think of [...]
Man is Made to Think, Deeply
by i.burgess on April 11, 2011
Man is obviously made to think. It is his whole dignity and whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. Now the order of thought is to begin with the self, and with it’s Author and its end. Now, of what does the world think? Never of this, but of dancing, [...]
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