Quotes About Transcendence

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.

Either a beast or a god.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

This is where God hangs out.

God cannot be explained... God can only be lived.

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.

The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.

When one chants the holy name of Krishna, Krishna dances on the tongue and one wishes one had thousands of ears and thousands of mouths with which to better appreciate the holy names of God.

I feel the presence of God when I feel the essence of divinity in anything and everything around me.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

You must overcome death by finding God in it.

As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.

The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !

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.