Quotes about Finite

People are little creatures with big capacities, finite beings with infinite desires, deserving nothing but demanding all. God made people with this huge capacity and desire in order that He might come in and completely satisfy that desire.

All fear springs from an aversion to being threatened or wronged on some level. And yet it is written that true love holds no record of wrong.3 Love does not take wrong into account. There is no fear in love. No polarity. This is Elyon's love, which sees no threat against itself because it is whole and cannot be disturbed or upset by any finite threat.

That is why God is a scandal to men and women—because He cannot be comprehended by a finite mind.

Revelation is something communicated from infinite agency or reality to the finite mind. But (in Farrer's picture) this is not a matter of God just interrupting the process of the world to 'insert' something alien into the gap; it happens as a result of what happens in the world of finite agents or substances, as these finite realities are modified in their relations to one another, drawn into newly meaningful shapes.

The Creator is that which activates a potentially unlimited set of modes in which finite agency is exercised, but is also simply what eternally is.

The most precious resource we have is time.

The most extensive ideas that a finite mind can frame about divine love, are infinitely below its true nature.

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

Our time for this life is nothing other than a race to death.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

It is impossible for finite minds to comprehend the work of redemption. Its mystery exceeds human knowledge; yet he who passes from death to life realizes that it is a divine reality. The beginning of redemption we may know here through a personal experience. Its results reach through the eternal ages.

Every ship sailing the sea of life needs to have the divine Pilot on board; but when storms arise, when tempests threaten, many persons push their Pilot overboard, and commit their bark into the hand of finite man, or try to steer it themselves.