what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn
that since day one
she's already had everything she needs within herself
it's the world that convinced her she did not
Pietism arose as a reaction to this ossification of the Reformation. Just as Jansenism opposed the cheap grace of the French Jesuits, so the Pietists challenged the nominal faith of German Lutheranism.
The aims of the Pietists were twofold: First, they stressed the importance of personal faith. They left behind all dreams of Catholic Christendom and Puritan commonwealths. They believed that Christianity starts with the individual. So for the first time in Christian history, the idea of conversions of baptized Christians (as well as pagans) came to prominence.
Second, the Pietists wanted to shift the center of the Christian life from the state churches, in which a person was born and brought up, to intimate fellowships of those who had a living faith in God. Revitalized laypeople from these centers were expected to spread the Word of God through all classes of men and women.
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By age twenty-seven Pascal had gained the admiration of mathematicians in Paris, had invented a calculating machine for his father, who was a burdened tax collector at the time, and had discovered the basic principles of atmospheric and hydraulic pressures.
The most aggressive opposition to the Jesuits came from a movement called Jansenism. Cornelius Jansen (1585–1638) was a Dutchman who had adopted St. Augustine’s views of sin and grace at the University of Louvain. He came to believe that the best way to defend Catholicism against the Calvinist challenge was to return to the doctrines of the great North African and establish a rigorous moral code for the Catholic clergy to combat the easygoing ethics of the Jesuits.
…insan itirafa, had safhada dürüstlüğe bu kadar itinayla hazırlanıyorsa, hayatta bir gün gerçekten itiraf edecek bir şey olacağını biliyor demektir.
Nedir bu gurur ve nedir bu gaflet?
Nedir bu haşmet, nedir bu istiğna, nedir bu azamet?
Elindeki ihtiyar bir kıl kadardır ve iktidarın bir zerre kadardır.
Ve hayatın söndü, ancak bir şu'le kaldı. Ömrün geçti, şuurun söndü, bir lem'a kaldı.
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