The Night Sewn Into His Coat
On the evening of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — mathematician, physicist, one of the sharpest minds in France — encountered something his equations could...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 9:28-36.
On the evening of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — mathematician, physicist, one of the sharpest minds in France — encountered something his equations could never contain. For roughly two hours, beginning around half past ten, Pascal experienced what he could only describe as "fire." The presence of the living God overwhelmed him so completely that he grabbed a scrap of parchment and scrawled words in a feverish hand: "God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob — not of philosophers and scholars.…
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