Quotes about Transcendence

Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).

In the terms in which you set it, the problem is unanswerable; but in the Kingdom of Heaven, those terms do not apply. You have asked the question in a form that is much too limited; the 'solution' must be brought in from outside your sphere of reference altogether.

Heaven is breaking into our world.

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 their be any who understand it or not.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

God enters by a private door into each individual.

The angels are so enamoured 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.

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

God does not have to dishonor himself, when he goes into the far country and conceals his glory.

Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.