Quotes about Transcendence
Pain then, if one could have faith in something greater than himself, might be a path to experiencing a meaning beyond the false gratification of personal comfort.
- Donald Miller
Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways, making impossible the denial of its presence.
- Luke Timothy Johnson
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. (COLOSSIANS 3:1 — 2)
- Lysa TerKeurst
Death is an ascension to a better library.
- John Donne
Beautiful things, as Matisse shows, always carry greetings from other worlds within them.
- John Eldredge
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...
- John Keats
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
- Thomas Merton
Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
- Henry David Thoreau
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
- John Calvin
Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.
- Paul Tillich
Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
- Henry Ward Beecher