Quotes about Transcendence
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
— Herman Melville
Life will continue on the other side of the veil.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
— Michelangelo
Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.
— St. Augustine
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
— Joseph Campbell
The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.
— AW Tozer
God is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of God. Music is a language more profound than words. How often have you heard a great piece of music and felt that? Great music does not just make you feel good; great music suggests some profound truth or mysterious meaning that is objectively true but not translatable into words.
— Peter Kreeft
Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.
— Peter Kreeft
Happiness can get boring, because it is the satisfaction of our desires, and we know what we desire. (Can you desire what you do not know?) Joy never gets boring because it transcends our desires and surprises them with gifts.
— Peter Kreeft
More accurately stated, man is not both angel and animal because he is neither angel nor animal; he is between angels and animals, a unique rung on the cosmic ladder.
— Peter Kreeft
"One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world."
— Confucius