Blaise Pascal: Making our theology philosophical and our philosophy theological

"The God of the Christians does not consist merely of a God who is the author of geometrical truths and the ordering of the elements, as in the pagan and Epicurean outlook.

He does not only consist of a God who exercises his providence on life and on human well-being, to give a long and happy life to those who worship him, as in the Jewish outlook.

The God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac,
the God of Jacob,
the God of the Christians,
is a God of love and consolation – a God who fills the hearts and souls of those he makes his own.

He is a God who gives them a deep inner awareness of their own misery and his infinite mercy;

who unites himself to them in the depths of their soul, filling them with

humility,
joy,
confidence and
love,

and makes them incapable of seeking any other end but himself."

-Blaise Pascal, excerpt from Pensées, quoted in Western Philosophy: An Anthology, edited by John Cottingham, second edition [emphasis mine]