Quotes about Transcendence
A comprehended god is no god.
- St. John Chrysostom
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
- John of the Cross
Between God and the soul there is no between.
- Julian of Norwich
Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
- Anselm of Canterbury
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
- Evelyn Underhill
God's name is not known; it is wondered at.
- Gregory of Nyssa
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.
- Hildegard of Bingen
You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.
- Tina Turner
Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!
- David Brainerd
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
- John of the Cross