the heart's reasons

                       Yes, that’s right. We need God to be ourselves. We need Him to understand ourselves as beings in the world. Without God, at the base of our thinking, we are an undefined being. We do not know our origin and the fate that awaits us after death. Death itself is a mystery to us. Why are we born to die? What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose of existence? What is man? It is true that people, immersed in the hustle and bustle of life, do not think about these things. But, in moments of self-reflection, they do think. Scholars also think, reflect, and research these issues. The important mathematician, philosopher, and Christian theologian Blaise Pascal was one of those scholars who devoted themselves to this subject. He wrote, in his work Thoughts: "When I think of the short duration of my life, absorbed in the eternity preceding and the following and the small space I occupy, merged in the immensity...