"...a nothing of eternity, and an eternity of nothing..."
Ran across this from Pascal -- had never seen it before. So true and cuts to the heart of Jesus' command to not worry and Paul's "do not set affections" on this world and James' "life is a vapor". How could it be that we have things so backwards? The Fall did more than we can imagine. As Peter Kreeft has it, "We read the Times when we need to read the eternities." Pascal says it so well:
"Our imagination so powerfully magnifies time, by continual reflections upon it,
and so diminishes eternity for want of reflection,
that we make a nothing of eternity, and an eternity of nothing;
and so vigorous and deeply rooted is this propensity, that the utmost efforts of our reason cannot extirpate it."
and so diminishes eternity for want of reflection,
that we make a nothing of eternity, and an eternity of nothing;
and so vigorous and deeply rooted is this propensity, that the utmost efforts of our reason cannot extirpate it."
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