Quotes about Transcendence
The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.
- Marianne Williamson
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
- Albert Camus
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
- Dorothy Day
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
- Helen Keller
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
- Benjamin Disraeli
When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Where words leave off, music begins.
- Heinrich Heine
Now the question is, what could conceivably transform an event that is naturally impossible into a real historical event? Clearly, the answer is the personal God of theism. For if a transcendent, personal God exists, then he could cause events in the universe that could not be produced by causes within the universe.
- William Lane Craig
I love to live on the brink of eternity.
- David Brainerd
It is good for me to be afflicted that I may die wholly to this world and all that is in it.
- David Brainerd
God is too large to be housed under one roof.
- Roger Williams