No "there" there

"Truth, we know, is so delicate that, if we make the slightest deviation from it, we fall into error; but this alleged error is so extremely finespun that, if we diverge from it in the slightest degree, we fall back upon the truth.  There is positively nothing between this obnoxious proposition and the truth but an imperceptible point.  The distance between them is so impalpable that I was in terror lest, from pure inability to perceive it, I might, in my over-anxiety to agree with the doctors of the Sorbonne, place myself in opposition to the doctors of the Church."

"La verité est si delicate, que si peu qu’on s’en retire, one tombe dans l’erreur:  mais cette erreur est si deliée, que sans mesme s’en éloigner, one se trouve dans la verité.  Il n’y a qu’un point imperceptible entre cette proposition et la foy.  La distance en est si insensible, que j’ay eü peur en ne la voyant pas, de me rendre contraire aux Docteurs de l’Eglise, pour me rendre trop conforme aux Docteurs de Sorbonne."

     Blaise Pascal, Provincial letters no. 3, trans. M'Crie (GBWW, 1st (1952) edition, vol. 33, p. 16).  =Brunschvicg Œuvres of 1904-1914, vol. 4, pp. 215-216.  It is a question here of "an imperceptible heresy" that none of "the Molinist doctors" so much as attempted to specify:

Such is the specimen of the way in which ['most people'] are giving vent to their feelings [of frustration].  But these are by far too deep-thinking people.  You and I, who make no pretension to such extraordinary penetration, may keep ourselves quite easy about the whole affair.  What!  would we be wiser than our masters?  No:  let us take example from them, and not undertake what they have not ventured upon.