Quotes about Transcendence
Since Christ, our Head, has ascended to heaven, we should leave our carnal desires behind and lift our hearts upward to him.
— John Calvin
Since I am coming to that holy room,Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore,I shall be made thy music; as I comeI tune the instrument here at the door,And what I must do then, think here before.
— John Donne
As yet God suspends me between heaven and earth, as a meteor; and I am not in heaven because an earthly body clogs me, and I am not in the earth because a heavenly soul sustains me.
— John Donne
As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.
— Henri Nouwen
We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.
— Paulo Coelho
There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.
— Arianna Huffington
All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.
— CS Lewis
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
— Walt Whitman
Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.
— Marianne Williamson
The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
— William Wordsworth
What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.
— Wayne Dyer