The Night Blaise Pascal Saw Fire
On the evening of November 23, 1654, the French mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. What happened next lasted roughly two...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Matthew 17:1-9.
On the evening of November 23, 1654, the French mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. What happened next lasted roughly two hours, but it marked him forever. He experienced an overwhelming encounter with the living God — so intense he could only describe it with one word repeated: "Fire." He scrawled his account on a scrap of parchment, noting the "certitude, certitude, feeling, joy, peace" that flooded his soul.…
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