“When the sailor is out on the ocean, when everything is changing all around him, when the waves are born and die, he does not stare down into the waves, because they are changing. He looks up at the stars. Why? Because they are faith-ful; they have the same location now that they had for our ancestors and will have for gen-erations to come. By what means does he conquer the change-able? By the eternal. By the eternal one can conquer the future, because the eternal is the ground of the future, and therefore through it the future can be fathomed.”

• Soren Kierkegaard