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Quotes About Transcendence

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
~ Bernadette Roberts
To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.
~ Saint Augustine
The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God.
~ Hadewijch
And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.
~ Mark Helprin
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There's no way a human being can escape his or her human-ness to be able to imagine God. We can talk about how we've experienced God, not what or who God is.
~ John Shelby Spong
God within us is communicating with God above us, and we know that this communication is pure and powerful.
~ Judson Cornwall
God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.
~ Alfred Jarry
God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
~ Martin Buber
For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.
~ Jakob Bohme
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
~ Honore de Balzac
In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
~ Bernadette Roberts
I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God.
~ Carl Jung
God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.
~ Walter Hilton
Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
~ Jean Cocteau
There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
~ Meister Eckhart
Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.
~ Rumi
Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls.
~ Ostad Elahi
Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.
~ Sean Lennon
Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.
~ Sri Aurobindo