{"id":3381,"date":"2017-11-06T18:07:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2020-11-08T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T04:58:09","slug":"pascal-in-christ-we-know-ourselves-without-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/3381\/pascal-in-christ-we-know-ourselves-without-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"Pascal, In Christ we know ourselves without despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Misery induces despair, pride induces presumption. The Incarnation shows man the greatness of his misery by the greatness of the remedy which he required.<\/p>\n<p>The knowledge of God without that of man\u2019s misery causes pride. The knowledge of man\u2019s misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/0e\/Buste_Pascal_Bibliotheque_Sainte-Genevieve.jpg\" style=\"border:none;\"><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?url=search-alias=aps&#038;tag=e0bf-20&#038;field-keywords=Pascal+Thoughts\">Pascal <em>Thoughts<\/em><\/a> 525, 526, 527<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misery induces despair, pride induces presumption. The Incarnation shows man the greatness of his misery by the greatness of the remedy which he required. The knowledge of God without that of man\u2019s misery causes pride. The knowledge of man\u2019s misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_disable_autopaging":false},"categories":[6702,6729,6707],"tags":[1624,6810,6808,375,1782,503,6811,1874,6730,6807,1864,6812,3177],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thechrist","category-pascal-studies-thechristcontents","category-studies-thechristcontents","tag-despair","tag-god-man","tag-greatness","tag-incarnation","tag-jesus-christ","tag-knowledge","tag-middle-course","tag-misery","tag-pascal-thoughts","tag-presumption","tag-pride","tag-remedy","tag-self-knowledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}