Quotes about Transcendent

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent—the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.

The transcendent glory that every human being quests for, whether he knows it or not, is not a thing; it is a person, and his name is God.

For encountering God means encountering transcendent security and transcendent eternity.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

was caught up to Paradise. The things he heard were too sacred for words, things that man is not permitted to tell.

All religion is supernatural, and rests upon the presupposition that God is distinct from the world and yet works in the world.

The universe is the sum total of all these moving things, however many there are. The whole universe is in the process of change. But we have already seen that change in any being requires an outside force to actualize it. Therefore, there is some force outside (in addition to) the universe, some real being transcendent to the universe. This is one of the things meant by God.

We fear God by honoring, reverencing, and cherishing Him. His greatness and majesty reduce us to an overpowering sense of awe that is not focused only on His wrath and judgment but also on His transcendent glory, which is like nothing else we can confront in this world. It leaves us all but speechless.

Made in the image of a perfect relationship, we are relational to the core of our beings and filled with a desire for transcendent purpose. We long to be an irreplaceable part of a shared adventure.