Quotes about Transcendence

I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.

The sufferings of Jesus show us that pain comes to us not as punishment but rather as a testing ground for faith that transcends pain. In truth, pain redeemed impresses me more than pain removed.

We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel

The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.

spiritual leadership transcends the power or personality and all other natural gifts. The personality of the spiritual leader influences others because it is penetrated, saturated, and empowered by the Holy Spirit. As the leader gives control of his life to the Spirit, the Spirit's power flows through him to others.

One of the virtues of 'The X-Men' was that it managed to transcend the expectations and prejudices of the medium. It appealed to a vaster audience than anyone had ever anticipated from any superhero book, much less 'X-Men.'

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

A God who is beyond out ability to fully describe or imagine, yet someone we are privileged to know, love, and embrace.

I want my life to defy human explanation.