Pascal says, but it’s a lesson we fail to grasp: “And thus, while the present never satisfies us, experience dupes us,” and so onward we stumble “from misfortune to misfortune . . . seeking from things absent the help [we do] not obtain in things present. But these are all inadequate . . . because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself.”
