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“Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.”

“Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.”

Problem Light Eternity Infinite Conviction Mature Finite

Book:Immortality: An Essay in Discovery, Co-ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research

Source: Immortality: An Essay in Discovery, Co-ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research

“Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.”

“I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.”

Knows Problem Pain Answers Know How Eternity Deep Pain

Author:Max Lucado

“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”

Problem Eternity Peculiar Location Crossroads

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.”

Way Matter Problem Worry Ambition Eternity Wrestling Sincerity Communion Sentimental Simulation Estrangement Acquiescence Clowning

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.”

“Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in. It is facing the challenges of life in a non-fearful way.”

Way Moments Problem Challenges Practice Meditation Eternity Meetings Tension Present Moment Fearful Creeps

Author:Vimala Thakar

“The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.”

Problem Faces Speak Simple Impossible Eternity Realms Comparison Sphinx

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.”

Problem Answers Events Crosses Eternity

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest