Pensées — Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal · Άδεια: Public domain · Πηγή

• Jesus, seeing all His friends asleep and all His enemies wakeful, commits Himself entirely to His Father. SECTION VII · ¶1582
• Jesus does not regard in Judas his enmity, but the order of God, which He loves and admits, since He calls him friend. SECTION VII · ¶1583
• Jesus tears Himself away from His disciples to enter into His agony; we must tear ourselves away from our nearest and dearest to imitate Him. SECTION VII · ¶1584
• Jesus being in agony and in the greatest affliction, let us pray longer. SECTION VII · ¶1585
• 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. SECTION VII · ¶1586
• If God gave us masters by His own hand, oh! how necessary for us to obey them with a good heart! Necessity and events follow infallibly. SECTION VII · ¶1587
• --"Console thyself, thou wouldst not seek Me, if thou hadst not found Me. SECTION VII · ¶1588
• "I thought of thee in Mine agony, I have sweated such drops of blood for thee. SECTION VII · ¶1589
• "It is tempting Me rather than proving thyself, to think if thou wouldst do such and such a thing on an occasion which has not happened; I shall act in thee if it occur. SECTION VII · ¶1590
• "Let thyself be guided by My rules; see how well I have led the Virgin and the saints who have let Me act in them. SECTION VII · ¶1591
• "The Father loves all that I do. SECTION VII · ¶1592
• "Dost thou wish that it always cost Me the blood of My humanity, without thy shedding tears? SECTION VII · ¶1593
• "Thy conversion is My affair; fear not, and pray with confidence as for Me. SECTION VII · ¶1594
• "I am present with thee by My Word in Scripture, by My Spirit in the Church and by inspiration, by My power in the priests, by My prayer in the faithful. SECTION VII · ¶1595
• "Physicians will not heal thee, for thou wilt die at last. But it is I who heal thee, and make the body immortal. SECTION VII · ¶1596
• "Suffer bodily chains and servitude, I deliver thee at present only from spiritual servitude. SECTION VII · ¶1597
• "If thou knewest thy sins, thou wouldst lose heart." SECTION VII · ¶1599
• --I shall lose it then, Lord, for on Thy assurance I believe their malice. SECTION VII · ¶1600
• --"I love thee more ardently than thou hast loved thine abominations, _ut immundus pro luto_. SECTION VII · ¶1603
• "To Me be the glory, not to thee, worm of the earth. SECTION VII · ¶1604
• "Ask thy confessor, when My own words are to thee occasion of evil, vanity, or curiosity." SECTION VII · ¶1605
• --I see in me depths of pride, curiosity, and lust. There is no relation between me and God, nor Jesus Christ the Righteous. But He has been made sin for me; all Thy scourges are fallen upon Him. He is more abominable than I, and, far from abhorring me, He holds Himself honoured that I go to Him and succour Him. SECTION VII · ¶1606
• But He has healed Himself, and still more so will He heal me. SECTION VII · ¶1607
• I must add my wounds to His, and join myself to Him; and He will save me in saving Himself. But this must not be postponed to the future. SECTION VII · ¶1608
• _Eritis sicut dii scientes bonum et malum._[205] Each one creates his god, when judging, "This is good or bad"; and men mourn or rejoice too much at events. SECTION VII · ¶1609
• Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life; and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence. SECTION VII · ¶1610
• It seems to me that Jesus Christ only allowed His wounds to be touched after His resurrection: _Noli me tangere._[206] We must unite ourselves only to His sufferings. SECTION VII · ¶1612
• At the Last Supper He gave Himself in communion as about to die; to the disciples at Emmaus as risen from the dead; to the whole Church as ascended into heaven. SECTION VII · ¶1613
• "I speak to thee, and often counsel thee, because thy director cannot speak to thee, for I do not want thee to lack a guide. SECTION VII · ¶1616
• "And perhaps I do so at his prayers, and thus he leads thee without thy seeing it. Thou wouldst not seek Me, if thou didst not possess Me. SECTION VII · ¶1617
• ... Men blaspheme what they do not know. The Christian religion consists in two points. It is of equal concern to men to know them, and it is equally dangerous to be ignorant to them. And it is equally of God's mercy that He has given indications of both. SECTION VIII · ¶1621
• And, as it is alike necessary to man to know these two points, so is it alike merciful of God to have made us know them. The Christian religion does this; it is in this that it consists. SECTION VIII · ¶1627
• Let us herein examine the order of the world, and see if all things do not tend to establish these two chief points of this religion: Jesus Christ is the end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the reason of everything. SECTION VIII · ¶1628
• Those who fall into error err only through failure to see one of these two things. We can then have an excellent knowledge of God without that of our own wretchedness, and of our own wretchedness without that of God. But we cannot know Jesus Christ without knowing at the same time both God and our own wretchedness. SECTION VIII · ¶1629
• All who seek God without Jesus Christ, and who rest in nature, either find no light to satisfy them, or come to form for themselves a means of knowing God and serving Him without a mediator. Thereby they fall either into atheism, or into deism, two things which the Christian religion abhors almost equally. SECTION VIII · ¶1632
• Without Jesus Christ the world would not exist; for it should needs be either that it would be destroyed or be a hell. SECTION VIII · ¶1633
• If the world existed to instruct man of God, His divinity would shine through every part in it in an indisputable manner; but as it exists only by Jesus Christ, and for Jesus Christ, and to teach men both their corruption and their redemption, all displays the proofs of these two truths. SECTION VIII · ¶1634
• All appearance indicates neither a total exclusion nor a manifest presence of divinity, but the presence of a God who hides Himself. Everything bears this character. SECTION VIII · ¶1635
• ... Shall he alone who knows his nature know it only to be miserable? Shall he alone who knows it be alone unhappy? SECTION VIII · ¶1636
• ... He must not see nothing at all, nor must he see sufficient for him to believe he possesses it; but he must see enough to know that he has lost it. For to know of his loss, he must see and not see; and that is exactly the state in which he naturally is. SECTION VIII · ¶1637

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