Quotes about Transcendence
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.
- Evelyn Underhill
Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.
- Henry Parry Liddon
Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.
- JI Packer
Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.
- JI Packer
O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.
- Jim Cymbala
It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.
- Jurgen Moltmann
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
- CS Lewis
It is easy to become disillusioned with the circumstances of our lives compared to others'. But in the presence of God, He gives us a deeper peace and joy that transcends it all.
- Francis Chan