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Quotes About Transcendent

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.
~ Alexander Schmemann
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.
~ Deepak Chopra
In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.
~ Frederick Lenz
This is where the staring angels go through. This is where all the stars bow down.
~ Ted Hughes
I could have mixed a thousand colors together, but I would never have been able to paint his eyes as I saw them then, in all their evanescent beauty. - Breena Malloy about Kian from Bitter Frost by Kailin Gow.
~ Kailin Gow
The main message of Gothic architecture is: "God is transcendent and unreachable—so be awed at His majesty." But such a message defies the message of the gospel, which says that God is very accessible—so much so that He has taken up residence inside of His people.
~ Frank Viola
That's what eternity is made of: invisible, imperishable good stuff.
~ Fred Rogers
To the modernist, "myth," like religion, merely signifies a comfortable and entrenched lie. For the postmodernist, myth simply represents one story, one narrative among many; it is purely subjective, certainly signifying nothing of transcendent or any other kind of importance.
~ Bradley J. Birzer
Robert Kennedy, on his own, left no great legislative legacy, founded no great institution, led no great movement. His most extraordinary accomplishment - and it was extraordinary - was to embody in himself, and create in others, a kind of transcendent yearning for the possibility of redemptive change.
~ Hendrik Hertzberg
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It's beyond everything. Nothing at all that I know touches it.
~ Henry James
But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.
~ Thomas Haden Church
Love is transcendent. It knows not of time nor space. It exist between 'us' for 'us.' Love and be loved. ~ Always ~
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
For many, his reference to the work of a transcendent mind merely demonstrated that he was unable to abandon an outmoded idealistic approach.
~ Stephen C. Meyer
I am ancient. I am dust held together by moonlight.
~ Steven E. Wedel
No nation has been on earth since the beginning of time and the very concept of nationhood is pretty recent. Despite that, most nations look upon their own existence as a self-evident destiny conferred by God, or by Nature, since time immemorial. Nations tend to think of their cultures and political systems, even their frontiers, as the work of Man, but they see their national existence as a transcendent fact, beyond all question
~ Milan Kundera
one transcendent kissthat later makes lovers takesoft breaths, holding hands
~ Lori L. Otto, Lost and Found
I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension. Do you want me? I am yours.
~ Mark Andrew Poe, Ending Easter
I was suddenly sure I wanted to be part of a journey toward insights so fundamental that they would never change. Let governments rise and fall, let World Series be won and lost, let legends of film, television, and stage come and go. I wanted to spend my life catching a glimpse of something transcendent.
~ Brian Greene
Long gold hair, eyes so light they looked silvery, and golden skin, the man was blindingly beautiful. Every hair on my body lifted, all over, in unison. And I got the strangest thought: He's not human.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'm very much down to earth, just not this earth.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Since Yahweh was an eternal invisible spirit, unlike the finite visible pagan gods and their graven images, he was transcendent from his people and set apart. But also unlike the pagan idols, he was a shepherd and loving father who was very near and imminent with his people and set within.
~ Brian Godawa
The most important doctrine I can declare, and the most powerful testimony I can bear, is of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. His atonement is the most transcendent event that ever has or ever will occur from Creation's dawn through all the ages of a never-ending eternity.
~ Bruce R. McConkie