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Quotes About Transcendence

God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.
~ Joseph Campbell
God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
~ Bono
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
~ Daniel Berrigan
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.
~ Franz Wright
Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
~ Georg Trakl
Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
~ Henry Adams
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what's important.
~ Joseph Campbell
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.
~ Meister Eckhart
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
~ D.T. Suzuki
Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.
~ Swami Vivekananda
He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
~ Victor Hugo
The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
~ Lauryn Hill
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
~ Pope John Paul II
Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Death is only passing through God's other door.
~ Edgar Cayce
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.
~ Hiroshi Sugimoto
The depths of the self are the heights of God.
~ James Finley
I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
~ John Donne
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
~ Wallace Stevens
When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer