Quotes About Transcendence

The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.

Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.

and within it was the form of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: They had a human form,

In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

So I got up and went out to the plain, and behold, the glory of the LORD was present there, like the glory I had seen by the River Kebar, and I fell facedown.

Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.

Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood above the cherubim.

And the glory of the LORD rose up from within the city and stood over the mountain east of the city.

As I was contemplating all this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came out of the west, crossing the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground.

So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision. No strength remained in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless.

But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

His clothes became radiantly white, brighter than any launderer on earth could bleach them.

Suddenly, when they looked around, they saw no one with them except Jesus.

but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight.

While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.

“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.