Quotes About Transcendence

As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!

Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.

God is greater than God.

say, 'I wish to come to you so that your wealth shall fill my poverty, your infinity shall fill my emptiness, and your immeasurable, incomprehensible Godhead shall fill my base and wretched humanity.

We must withdraw, then, from all things, for when God works, he works without an image.

We should not content ourselves with a God of thoughts for, when the thoughts come to an end, so too shall God. Rather, we should have a living God who is beyond the thoughts of all people and all creatures. That kind of God will not leave us, unless we ourselves choose to turn away from him.

When earth discovered that its nature was unlike that of heaven and far from it, it fled from heaven to the lowest place it could find and remained there in stillness.

Sometimes Webb believed that he would never experience a better feeling than when he was looking at her, would never see anything or anybody bursting with more life and spirit. Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage area in his soul. Just in case.

One day Tate was there, a ghost of Tate

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black flower: Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings - The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power, Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind Into so wraith-like a translucency Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone - A Reverie of Bone

If you think of religion as something that offers a picture of something more grand than us, reading does the same thing. Reading enables us to lift ourselves from our current situation to something higher – and better. It expands one's own imagination.

A morte é uma brevíssima varanda.Dali se espreita o tempo como a águia se debruça no penhasco- em volta todo o espaço se pode converter em esplêndida voação.

Dormir com alguém é a intimidade maior. Não é fazer amor. Dormir, isso é que é íntimo. Um homem dorme nos braços de mulher e a sua alma se transfere de vez. Nunca mais ele encontra suas interioridades.

A resposta borboleteia sem poiso: a pessoa que amamos está enterrada em todo o lado. O mesmo é dizer: não desce nunca à terra.

Nessa noite se solveram, mãos de oleiro, salvando o outro de ter peso. Nessa noite o corpo de um foi lençol do outro. e ambos foram pássaros porque o tempo deles foi antes de haver terra. e quando ela gritou de prazer o mundo ficou cego: um moinho de braços se desfez ao vento. E mais nenhum destino havia.

A gente não vai para o céu. É o oposto: o céu é que nos entra, pulmões adentro. A pessoa morre e é engasgada em nuvem.

Christianity challenged Rome's most basic set of values. The peculiar, mysterious religion forced a distinction - between what it meant to be a Roman and what it meant to be a Christian. The church fathers were quite aware that they were Roman citizens, but they also understood that their faith in Christ transcended the political and social values of their day.

the Hiéron du Val d'Or was simultaneously Christian and "trans-Christian.

Where does your lap go when you stand up? Where does your fist go when you open your hand? The same place God goes when you diminish life.