Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.
How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.
Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.