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Quotes About Transcendent

It isn't so very far from the elevated as distance goes, but it's centuries away as the soul goes.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Desire is truly directed toward a transcendent, transmundane future because it rests ultimately on the desire for an everlasting happy life.
~ Hannah Arendt
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
~ E. M. Forster
Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant.
~ Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Welcome to life. Sometimes it's terrifying. Other times, transcendent. The trick is not to let the fear keep you from the joy.
~ Meghan O'Brien
When I speak of the spiritual, I refer to the recognition within everyone that there is a place of mystery in our lives where forces that are beyond human desire or will alter circumstances and/or guide and direct us. I call these forces divine spirit. When we choose to lead a spirit-filled life, we recognize and celebrate the presence of transcendent spirits.
~ bell hooks
I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
~ Sai Baba
They are ever eager to assure us that man's most sublime thoughts of the Transcendent are but a little better than his worst: that loving intuition is the only certain guide. "By love may He be gotten and holden, but by thought never.
~ Evelyn Underhill
The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and deathless! He never was born and has never died - "As he was in the beginning, he is now, and ever shall be!
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Patience is the transcendent radiance of a loving and tender heart which, in its dealings with those around it, looks kindly and graciously upon them.
~ Billy Graham
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
~ Seamus Heaney
The writer must be a transcendent, not immanent, deity.
~ Dave Morris
The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.
~ Margot Lee Shetterly
Before Julius Erving, being a stylish basketball player meant 13 ounces of pomade in your hair and color coordinating the belt in your shorts with your canvas sneakers. Dr. J was a transcendent figure athletically, but he also changed the aesthetics of the sport.
~ Sean Evans
Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.
~ Janelle Monae
The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the laying on of hands by those having priesthood authority.
~ James E. Faust
What's been lost is allowing cinema to be artful, playful, to have ambiguity, to have form, to be contemplative, to wish to be art. This slightly timeless approach to reality, like Chekhov in literature, where you look at all humanity and try to find what's transcendent.
~ Pawel Pawlikowski
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
~ John Quincy Adams
I tend to panic and fear on a low-grade level every day, but when something really disastrous happens, I kick into super high gear; a kind of transcendent, save-everybody mind-set.
~ Weyes Blood
'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.
~ Ellen Barkin
The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.
~ Max Heindel
Every time I go to Africa, I feel like I hit true north. There is a depth of feeling that I have for the continent, in the richness of the people, the suffering , but also the transcendent joy that is there - it's like nowhere else on the planet.
~ David Oyelowo
For me, what disturbs me about some of the conversations on the left is that you get the impression that times are so divisive, that there's so much discomfort with what Trump has exposed, that some people on the left don't actually have the goal of a kind of racially transcendent future. They don't want that.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?
~ Stan Rice