I mentioned sometime on Sunday Pascal's famous dictum, that there was a God-shaped void or hole in every human heart. Here's the full quotation, updated for modern minds...
"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 (1623 - 1662) Pensees 10.148
HT: Glenn Chesnut
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