Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac? - C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation — the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.