Quotes about Transcendence
Having forsaken all things, a man should forsake himself.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire. Thou canst not be satisfied with any temporal good, for thou wast not created for the enjoyment of these.
— Thomas a Kempis
Be ofttimes mindful of the saying, The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Strive, therefore, to turn away thy heart from the love of the things that are seen, and to set it upon the things that are not seen. For they who follow after their own fleshly lusts, defile the conscience, and destroy the grace of God. (1) John viii. 12. (2) Revelations ii. 17. (3) Ecclesiastes i. 8.
— Thomas a Kempis
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera."
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man's world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?
— Viktor E. Frankl
I knew only one thing which I have learned well by now : love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. it find its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man's world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?
— Viktor E. Frankl
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepet meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. I
— Viktor E. Frankl
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance
— Viktor E. Frankl
love goes far beyond the physical person of the beloved. it finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self
— Viktor E. Frankl