Quotes about Transcendence
Beautiful things, as Matisse shows, always carry greetings from other worlds within them.
— John Eldredge
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...
— John Keats
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
— Thomas Merton
Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
— Henry David Thoreau
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
— John Calvin
Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.
— Paul Tillich
Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
To be spiritually minded is life and peace. -- Rom. 8:6 Set your affection on things above. -- Col. 3:2
— John Owen
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.
— GK Chesterton
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson