Quotes About Transcendent

She has an astral quality, even something quite vatic. You grasp my meaning—the poet veering toward the status of priest.

Aren't we all -- not just the saints and saintly, but also all we ordinary sorts-- meant, at lest occasionally, to dream the dreams that, by grace, move the soul beyond her dry and dusty season into that transcendent sleep that is so sweet?

The equal and sustainable right of access to the Earth's bounty seems one of the most transcendent truths a human being can contemplate. Yet, this right is missing from the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The fact that this single principle is violated on an ongoing basis is quite possibly the root cause of many, if not most, other human rights violations.

Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.

My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up then where is my need for the transcendent? If everything is glory and beauty and sweetness and light, will I be the type of soul that reaches to Jesus?

Buddhism is originally not a religion of faith in a transcendent deity but a religion of awakening to the true nature of self and others.

If there are paranormal elements use words like "demon" or "worlds colliding.

La moral pura es única y universal. No sufre ninguna alteración en el transcurso del tiempo, ni tampoco ninguna añadidura. No depende de ningún factor histórico, económico, sociológico o cultural; no depende de nada en absoluto. No está determinada y determina. No está condicionada y condiciona. En otras palabras: es un absoluto.

felt very floaty, like my body had turned into mist, or like that time in college when I took a hit of acid and had the "Tinkerbell" episode.

We often tend to think of the Father as transcendent and far off in heaven; similarly, the Son may seem far removed in history and thus also relatively unknowable. But the Holy Spirit is active within the lives of believers; he is resident within us. He is the particular person of the Trinity through whom the entire Triune Godhead currently works in us.

It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power

In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.

The exercise of the charismata, in Tillich's terms, confronts the ambiguities of life from within the unity of nature and spirit driving toward the transcendent. In Pentecostals' terms, the charismata are the participation in the Spirit of the coming kingdom of God.

Logic, when used correctly and by an intellect that is not corrupted by the lower passions, may lead to one to the Transcendent itself.

We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent—the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.

The transcendent glory that every human being quests for, whether he knows it or not, is not a thing; it is a person, and his name is God.

This distinction between form and experience is not pedantic, but fundamental: a form can express the Transcendent, an experience cannot. A form can express the common ground in which all things share. An experience can only express one man's reaction to that common ground.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human