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• What will use more finite resources? That 3rd or 4th child you have or driving a large car? We all need to think about the choices we make

  Phil Harding

  Children, Thinking, Car

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• The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Inspiration, Insecurity

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• Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself has become man, become body, and here (in the liturgy), again and again, he comes through his body to us who live in the body.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.112, Ignatius Press

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• Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country . . . and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around it. But one thing I do know: Jesus is expecting me, and He's prepared a place for me.

  Greg Laurie

  Country, Jesus, Cities

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• When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.

  Lewis Carroll

  Men, Intuition, Acting

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• There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ideas, Infinity, Movement

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.364, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Every infinity... is made finite to God.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Faith, Hope

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• Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

  Jim Whitehurst

  Innovation, Saving, Stuff

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• Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Politics, Way

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• We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

  Herman E. Daly

  Needs, Purpose, World

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• I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Needs, Definitions

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• The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.

  Kurt Gödel

  Law, Limits, Precision

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• Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Dog, Men, Choices

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• I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

  Hans Kung

  Reality, Space, Transition

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Küng 'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.

  Desmond Tutu

  Why Not, Longing, Infinite

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

  Vladimir Arnold

  Numbers, Fields, Cryptography

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• Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.

  Robin Ince

  Believe, Use, Want

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

  Demetri Martin

  Hopeful, Retrospect, Infinite

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.

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• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Believe, Past

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• There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Economics, Theory, Used

  "Jeremy Grantham on how to feed the world and why he invests in oil". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Valuable, Managers

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• The trouble is that we do not have the power of God in a full manifestation because of our finite thoughts, but as we go on and let God have His way, there is no limit to what our limitless God will do in response to a limitless faith. But you will never get anywhere except you are in constant pursuit of all the power of God.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Letting Go, Goes On, Way

  Smith Wigglesworth (2000). “Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power”, p.296, Whitaker House

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• Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

  Shawn Achor

  Choices, Brain, World

  "Is happiness the secret of success?" by Shawn Achor, www.cnn.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

  Anne Fortier

  Reality, Wish, Flip

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• Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Want

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