Sunday Quote: Blaise Pascal on God’s Hiddenness
“What can be seen on earth indicates neither the total absence, nor the manifest presence of divinity, but the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this stamp.” &
Sunday Quote: Blaise Pascal on Knowing Truth
“We know truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries
Sunday Quote: Pascal on Being Mistaken
“I should be much more afraid of being mistaken and then finding out that Christianity is true than of being mistaken in believing it to be true.” – Blaise Pascal
Book Review: On Pascal by Douglas Groothuis
On Pascal by Douglas Groothuis is a short but enlightening look at the life of seventeenth-century mathematician, scientist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal. The goal of Groothuis
Book Review: Pensées by Blaise Pascal
In the span of a short life of 39 years (1623-1662), the French-born Blaise Pascal made his mark as scientist, inventor, philosopher, and theologian. Yet his Pensées (thoughts), p