Just now I finished reading all 924 of Pascal’s Pensées. The deceitful Oxford University Press translation did not get the last word! I feel much better now. Let me quote maybe my favorite because every time I read it my heart, soul, and mind leap with love towards this Jesus who gave up all and died for me. “What man ever had more renown? And yet what man enjoys renown less? Of thirty-three years, He lives thirty without appearing. For three years He passes as an imposter; the priests and the chief people reject Him; His friends and His nearest relatives despise Him. Finally, He dies, betrayed by one of His own disciples, denied by another, and abandoned by all. What part, then, has He is in this renown? Never had man so much renown; never had man more disgrace. All that renown served only for us, to render us capable of recognizing Him; and He had none of it for Himself” (792)
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:40:45 +0000
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