Quotes about Transcendence
Heaven is breaking into our world.
— Rachel Hauck
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 their be any who understand it or not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into each individual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The angels are so enamoured 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
God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.
— Karl Barth
God does not have to dishonor himself, when he goes into the far country and conceals his glory.
— Karl Barth
Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).
— Karl Barth
Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.
— Joseph Addison
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
— Henry David Thoreau