Quotes about Transcendence
Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.
— Max Lucado
Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
— William Paul Young
One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art
— St. Thomas Aquinas
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
God is the highest place within each and every one of us. It's our divine self.
— Wayne Dyer
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
— Madeleine L'Engle
God alone is immortal, imperishable.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
— Marianne Williamson
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.
— Evelyn Underhill
Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.
— Henry Parry Liddon