In the last installment examining some of Pascal's pensees from The Trinity Forum's booklet, "Blaise Pascal: The Wager and Other Selections from the Pensees," with commentary by Peter Kreeft, we considered two pseudo-solutions to the human dilemma. They are the pseudo-solutions of diversions and indifference. We turn now to the one remaining bit of innate sanity, to use Kreeft's phrase, that abides despite our insane and decadent culture: the knowledge that we will all die. As Dr. Johnson once declared, "I know know thought that so wonderfully clarifies the mind as the thought that I shall hang tomorrow morning."

Listen to Pascal: "There are only three sorts of people: those who have found God and serve Him; those who are busy seeking him and have not found him; those who live without either seeking or finding him. The first are reasonable and happy, the last are foolish and unhappy, those in the middle are unhappy and yet…