Quotes about Transcendence

Insulate me, O Lord, from the things of sense and time, and usher me into the presence of the King.

O could I tell, ye surely would believe it! O could I only say what I have seen! How should I tell or how can ye receive it, How, till He bringeth you where I have been?

Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.

We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. LEWIS12

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The desire resides in each of us, and it is called transcendence. To transcend is to be part of something greater. We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.

It is so difficult for us to remember and be motivated by what is truly important. It is so tempting to be committed to our little kingdoms that the transcendent kingdom of God is of little functional influence.

All the things that disappoint you now are to remind you that this is not all there is

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."5