Quotes about Finite

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

Courage as an element of faith is the daring self-affirmation of one's own being in spite of the powers of "non-being" which are the heritage of everything finite.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.

The power of a society is determined by its victory over other societies in still larger finite games. Its most treasured memories are those of the heroes fallen in victorious battles with other societies. Heroes of lost battles are almost never memorialized. Foch has his monument, but not Petain; Lincoln, but not Jefferson Davis; Lenin, but not Trotsky.

Every infinity... is made finite to God.

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.