Quotes about Transcendence

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

Having forsaken all things, a man should forsake himself.

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire. Thou canst not be satisfied with any temporal good, for thou wast not created for the enjoyment of these.

Be ofttimes mindful of the saying, The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Strive, therefore, to turn away thy heart from the love of the things that are seen, and to set it upon the things that are not seen. For they who follow after their own fleshly lusts, defile the conscience, and destroy the grace of God. (1) John viii. 12. (2) Revelations ii. 17. (3) Ecclesiastes i. 8.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera."

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man's world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?

I knew only one thing which I have learned well by now : love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. it find its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.