Blaise-ing Sadles

I just found a most amazing illustration of reason vs. faith in Pensees by Blaise Pascal. He bemoans the fact that reason is only useful because we have such little knowledge of, what he calls first principles through intuition and feeling. He goes as far as to posit that all reason is based upon first principles, which are only known through intuition:

For knowledge of first principles, like space, time, motion, number, is as solid as any derived through reason, and it is on such knowledge, coming from the heart and instinct, that reason has to depend and base all its argument.

Then, and here’s the mind-blowing part, he compares the knowledge gained through God’s moving our hearts and our own limited capacity for reason:

Would to God...that we never needed it and knew everything by instinct and feeling! But nature has refused us this blessing, and has instead given us only very little knowledge of this kind; all other knowledge can be acquired only by reasoning.

That is why those to whom God has given religious faith by moving their hearts are very fortunate, and feel quite legitimately convinced, but to those who do not have it we can only give such faith through reasoning, until God gives it by moving their heart, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

Wow! It makes so much sense - trying to explain, through the finite scope of reason, the knowledge of God as known only through the infinite revealing of His moving our hearts, to those who cling to pure reason with unmoved hearts. Could it be that reason is the true crutch and faith holds the key?