Quotes about Transcendence
It is so difficult for us to remember and be motivated by what is truly important. It is so tempting to be committed to our little kingdoms that the transcendent kingdom of God is of little functional influence.
- Paul David Tripp
All the things that disappoint you now are to remind you that this is not all there is
- Paul David Tripp
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."5
- Paul David Tripp
This desire for transcendence is in all of us because God placed it there. He constructed us to live for more than ourselves.
- Paul David Tripp
Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical
- Paul David Tripp
When you have one eye on eternity, this present physical world looks entirely different.
- Paul David Tripp
We were made to be more connected to what is above us than to what is below us. To
- Paul David Tripp
It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence, because you were created to be an "above and more" being. You were made to be transcendent.
- Paul David Tripp
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
- Paul Tillich
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
- Paul Tillich
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
- Paul Tillich
He who participates in God participates in eternity.
- Paul Tillich