Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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.
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond.
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.