Consider Christ
This is the last of the quotes from a book I have been reading where Peter Kreeft selects the parts of Blaise Pascal's Pensées (English translation=Thoughts) that are generally considered great and interesting, and most respond to the needs of today. Kreeft quotes Pascal and then offers his own comments and insights on applying Pascal's wisdom to today's questions and problems. Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Kreeft is a modern apologist and professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College.
"Consider Jesus Christ in every person, and in ourselves. Jesus Christ as father in His father, Jesus Christ as brother in His brothers, Jesus Christ as poor in the poor, Jesus Christ as rich in the rich, Jesus Christ as priest and doctor in priests, Jesus Christ as sovereign in princes, etc. For by His glory He is everything that is great, being God, and by His mortal life He is everything that is wretched and abject. That is why He took on this unhappy condition, so that He could be in every person and a model for every condition of men."
~Blaise Pascal
"We can consider Him there only because He really is there. He is in His whole Body as your soul is in your whole body. We really do meet and touch and help or harm Christ in our neighbors. If we lived this one thought, we would convert and transform the world."
~Peter Kreeft
"Consider Jesus Christ in every person, and in ourselves. Jesus Christ as father in His father, Jesus Christ as brother in His brothers, Jesus Christ as poor in the poor, Jesus Christ as rich in the rich, Jesus Christ as priest and doctor in priests, Jesus Christ as sovereign in princes, etc. For by His glory He is everything that is great, being God, and by His mortal life He is everything that is wretched and abject. That is why He took on this unhappy condition, so that He could be in every person and a model for every condition of men."
~Blaise Pascal
"We can consider Him there only because He really is there. He is in His whole Body as your soul is in your whole body. We really do meet and touch and help or harm Christ in our neighbors. If we lived this one thought, we would convert and transform the world."
~Peter Kreeft
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