If God does not lie at the end of any telescope, neither does he lie at the end of any syllogism. I can never starting from the natural order prove t… - Walter Terence Stace

It is a commonplace that eternity is not an endless prolongation of time, has nothing to do with time. Eternity is a characteristic of the mystical experience. The word eternity doubtless meant originally endlessness of time, which must count, therefore, as its literal meaning. But in its religious and metaphysical use it is a metaphor for the characteristic of the experience. For in that experience time drops away and is no more seen.

It must now be added that these attempts at proof not only fail of their purpose, and so do no good to religion, but that they positively degrade it.

It is not likely that science, which is basically the cause of our spiritual troubles, is likely also to produce the cure for them. Also it lies in the nature of science that, though it can teach us the best means for achieving our ends, it can never tell us what ends to pursue.