Humility and Justification in the Parable of the Tax Collector and Pharisee from Luke 18:9-14.

The Gospel of Luke tells of Jesus encountering crowds of people “who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt” (Lk. 18:9).[1] They were basically self-righteous, prideful, and oblivious to their own brokenness. They went about sizing up others as deplorable wretches ruining society. Those the self-righteous criticized were indeed sinners; … Continue reading Humility and Justification in the Parable of the Tax Collector and Pharisee from Luke 18:9-14.

Blaise Pascal Thoughts on the Greatness and Wretchedness of Man

Greatness and wretchedness…some have inferred man's wretchedness all the more because they have taken his greatness as a proof of it, and others have inferred his greatness with all the more force, because they have inferred it from his very wretchedness….            It is dangerous to make man see too clearly his equality with the brutes … Continue reading Blaise Pascal Thoughts on the Greatness and Wretchedness of Man