Pensées — Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal · Licença: Public domain · Fonte

• _Judæi signa petunt et Græci sapientiam quærunt, nos autem Jesum crucifixum. Sed plenum signis, sed plenum sapientia; vos autem Christum non crucifixum et religionem sine miraculis et sine sapientia._[328] SECTION XIII · ¶2639
• What makes us not believe in the true miracles, is want of love. John: _Sed vos non creditis, quia non estis ex ovibus._[329] What makes us believe the false is want of love. II Thess. ii. SECTION XIII · ¶2640
• The foundation of religion. It is the miracles. What then? Does God speak against miracles, against the foundations of the faith which we have in Him? SECTION XIII · ¶2641
• Moses foretold Jesus Christ, and bade to follow Him. Jesus Christ foretold Antichrist, and forbade to follow him. SECTION XIII · ¶2643
• It was impossible that in the time of Moses men should keep their faith for Antichrist, who was unknown to them. But it is quite easy, in the time of Antichrist, to believe in Jesus Christ, already known. SECTION XIII · ¶2644
• There is no reason for believing in Antichrist, which there is not for believing in Jesus Christ. But there are reasons for believing in Jesus Christ, which there are not for believing in the other. SECTION XIII · ¶2645
• Judges xiii, 23: "If the Lord were pleased to kill us, He would not have shewed us all these things." SECTION XIII · ¶2647
• Jeremiah. Hananiah, the false prophet, dies in seven months. SECTION XIII · ¶2649
• 2 Macc. iii. The temple, ready for pillage, miraculously succoured.--2 Macc. xv. SECTION XIII · ¶2650
• 1 Kings xvii. The widow to Elijah, who had restored her son, "By this I know that thy words are true." SECTION XIII · ¶2651
• 1 Kings xviii. Elijah with the prophets of Baal. SECTION XIII · ¶2652
• In the dispute concerning the true God and the truth of religion, there has never happened any miracle on the side of error, and not of truth. SECTION XIII · ¶2653
• _Opposition._--Abel, Cain; Moses, the Magicians; Elijah, the false prophets: Jeremiah, Hananiah; Micaiah, the false prophets; Jesus Christ, the Pharisees; St. Paul, Bar-jesus; the Apostles, the Exorcists; Christians, unbelievers; Catholics, heretics; Elijah, Enoch, Antichrist. SECTION XIII · ¶2655
• Jesus Christ says that the Scriptures testify of Him. But He does not point out in what respect. SECTION XIII · ¶2657
• The prophecies were ambiguous; they are no longer so. SECTION XIII · ¶2662
• The five propositions were ambiguous; they are no longer so. SECTION XIII · ¶2664
• _Miracle._--The people concluded this of themselves; but if the reason of it must be given to you ... SECTION XIII · ¶2668
• It is unfortunate to be in exception to the rule. The same must be strict, and opposed to exception. But yet, as it is certain that there are exceptions to a rule, our judgment must though strict, be just. SECTION XIII · ¶2669
• John vi, 26: _Non quia vidisti signum, sed quia saturati estis._ SECTION XIII · ¶2671
• John ix: _Non est hic homo a Deo, quia sabbatum non custodit. Alii: Quomodo potest homo peccator hæc signa facere?_ SECTION XIII · ¶2673
• This house is not of God; for they do not there believe that the five propositions are in Jansenius. Others: This house is of God; for in it there are wrought strange miracles. SECTION XIII · ¶2675
• _Tu quid dicis? Dico quia propheta est. Nisi esset hic a Deo, non poterat facere quidquam._[330] SECTION XIII · ¶2677
• In the Old Testament, when they will turn you from God. In the New, when they will turn you from Jesus Christ. These are the occasions for excluding particular miracles from belief. No others need be excluded. SECTION XIII · ¶2679
• Does it therefore follow that they would have the right to exclude all the prophets who came to them? No; they would have sinned in not excluding those who denied God, and would have sinned in excluding those who did not deny God. SECTION XIII · ¶2680
• So soon, then, as we see a miracle, we must either assent to it, or have striking proofs to the contrary. We must see if it denies a God, or Jesus Christ, or the Church. SECTION XIII · ¶2681
• There is a great difference between not being for Jesus Christ and saying so, and not being for Jesus Christ and pretending to be so. The one party can do miracles, not the others. For it is clear of the one party, that they are opposed to the truth, but not of the others; and thus miracles are clearer. SECTION XIII · ¶2683
• That we must love one God only is a thing so evident, that it does not require miracles to prove it. SECTION XIII · ¶2685
• "Though ye believe not Me, believe at least the works."[331] He refers them, as it were, to the strongest proof. SECTION XIII · ¶2689
• It had been told to the Jews, as well as to Christians, that they should not always believe the prophets; but yet the Pharisees and Scribes are greatly concerned about His miracles, and try to show that they are false, or wrought by the devil. For they must needs be convinced, if they acknowledge that they are of God. SECTION XIII · ¶2690
• At the present day we are not troubled to make this distinction. Still it is very easy to do: those who deny neither God nor Jesus Christ do no miracles which are not certain. _Nemo facit virtutem in nomine meo, et cito possit de me male loqui._[332] SECTION XIII · ¶2691
• The Church has three kinds of enemies: the Jews, who have never been of her body; the heretics, who have withdrawn from it; and the evil Christians, who rend her from within. SECTION XIII · ¶2695
• Miracles furnish the test in matters of doubt, between Jews and heathens, Jews and Christians, Catholics and heretics, the slandered and slanderers, between the two crosses. SECTION XIII · ¶2698
• (We have without doubt the same signs as Saint Athanasius.) SECTION XIII · ¶2701
• _Si tu es Christus, dic nobis.[336] SECTION XIII · ¶2703
• Opera quæ ego facio in nomine patris mei, hæc testimonium perhibent de me. Sed vos non creditis quia non estis ex ovibus meis. Oves meœ vocem meam audiunt._[337] SECTION XIII · ¶2704
• John vi, 30. _Quod ergo tu facis signum ut videamus et credamus tibi?--Non dicunt: Quam doctrinam prædicas? SECTION XIII · ¶2705
• Nemo potest facere signa quæ tu facis nisi Deus._[338] SECTION XIII · ¶2706
• 2 Macc. xiv, 15. _Deus qui signis evidentibus suam portionem protegit. SECTION XIII · ¶2707
• Volumus signum videre de cœlo, tentantes eum._ Luke xi, 16. SECTION XIII · ¶2708
• _Generatio prava signum quærit; et non dabitur.[339] SECTION XIII · ¶2709

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