Quotes about Finite

The very fact that what God creates is less than Himself introduces limitations and imperfections into the picture.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

To be a Jew is to renounce allegiance to false gods; to be sensitive to God's infinite stake in every finite situation; to bear witness to His presence in the hours of His concealment; to remember that the world is unredeemed. We are born to be an answer to His question.

Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

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

The greatest commodity to own is land. It is finite. God is not making any more of it.

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.

What child is this? "The Infinite has become a finite fact." Everything depends on this, or the nativity story is just a child's fable that no thinking adult can believe.

Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.

In the light of this clarification of the finite/infinite distinction, we can see that 'revelatory' action, including whatever events allow us a closer conscious share in infinite agency (in the love of the Trinity, to use the conventional theological phrasing), will be, not an interruption of the finite sequence, but a particular configuration of finite agency such that it communicates more than its own immanent content.

In the view of infinity, any defined long-term is short-term.

For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.