Quotes about Transcendence
Human courage is an opiate but opiates are human too. If God is an opiate so am I. Therefore eat me. Eat the night
— Jack Kerouac
The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.
— Joel Osteen
And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.
— Thomas Merton
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
— St. Augustine
When the lungs finally empty of air and begin to fill with the sweetness of heaven's breath, one will realize in that instant that thought they have existed before, only in that moment will they truly have begun to live.
— Tamera Alexander
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
— St. Augustine
We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
— Marianne Williamson
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
— CS Lewis
It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.
— St Bonaventure
True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
— William Barclay
The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no me, the me would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a me. This me of the infinite is God.
— Victor Hugo
Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no one is happy.
— Victor Hugo