Quotes about Transcendence

Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.

To be spiritually minded is life and peace. -- Rom. 8:6 Set your affection on things above. -- Col. 3:2

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

If it weren't for death, life would be unbearable.

He ceases to argue about God who has found God within. Relying upon that calm strength which is not the strength of self, he lives God, manifesting in his daily life the Highest Goodness, which is Eternal Life.

The animal in man can never respond to and know the divine; only the divine can respond to the divine.

On the wings of aspiration man rises from earth to heaven, from ignorance to knowledge, from the under darkness to the upper light. Without it he remains a grovelling animal, earthly, sensual, unenlightened, and uninspired. Aspiration is the longing for heavenly things.

The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.