Quotes about Transcendence
To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.
— Philip Yancey
The sufferings of Jesus show us that pain comes to us not as punishment but rather as a testing ground for faith that transcends pain. In truth, pain redeemed impresses me more than pain removed.
— Philip Yancey
We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel
— Philip Yancey
The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.
— Desmond Tutu
spiritual leadership transcends the power or personality and all other natural gifts. The personality of the spiritual leader influences others because it is penetrated, saturated, and empowered by the Holy Spirit. As the leader gives control of his life to the Spirit, the Spirit's power flows through him to others.
— J. Oswald Sanders
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
— St. Augustine
A God who is beyond out ability to fully describe or imagine, yet someone we are privileged to know, love, and embrace.
— Louie Giglio
I want my life to defy human explanation.
— Louie Giglio
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.
— John Bunyan
It is the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.
— John Bunyan
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
— John Donne