Quotes about Transcendence
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.
— St. John Chrysostom
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature is the mirror of divinity.
— Ellen White
In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.
— Priscilla Shirer
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
— Albert Einstein
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
— John Milton
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is saturated with deity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.
— Marianne Williamson
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
— Albert Camus