Reality of things

Pascal writes, "Let man re awake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?"

What is man in nature? Just a dot compared with the infinite, a mean between zero and all. According to Pascal we are infinitely unable to grasp the extremes, the end of things and the beginning are hopelessly hidden. For we are "equally unable to see the Nothing whence we spring, and the Infinite in which we are swallowed up."

Pascal also says, we should know our limits. "We are something" he says. But "we are not all." "Such existence as we have deprives us of the knowledge of first principles whose source is the Nothing; and the pettiness of our existence hides from our sight the Infinite." Those "principles" he refers to are a relationship to God through Jesus Christ. It is God who brought the universe out of nothing and God who sustains it.