Craving for the Heavenly

(The northern lights in Western N.Y. - 5/10/2024 - Letchworth State Park - found here)

“Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”

~Blaise Pascal

“In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw ‘the heavens.’ In an age of hopelessness they call it simply ‘space.’”
~Peter Kreeft (re-post)

“What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.”
~Blaise Pascal (Pensées VII)

“Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men’s souls; and a beautiful image it is. They sooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.”
~Blaise Pascal