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Quotes About Transcendence

God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.
~ Evagrius Ponticus
Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!
~ David Brainerd
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.
~ Jean Sibelius
Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.
~ Meister Eckhart
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
~ Francis Chan
Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.
~ Rumi
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
~ John of the Cross
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
~ Walt Whitman
God is silent. Everything comes out of silence.
~ Mother Meera
God is not He who is, but That which is.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.
~ Rama Swami
Our God and His world is way more real than this world.
~ Karen Wheaton
Only a god can save us.
~ Martin Heidegger
God is without visible form, yet in the heart, God is revealed.
~ Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
~ Evelyn Underhill
And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
God is so great that the greatness precludes existence.
~ Raimon Panikkar
In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning.
~ Rajneesh
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
~ Robert Browning
The God that can be named is not God.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Silence is the only language god speaks.
~ Charles Simic
No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.
~ George Harrison