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Quotes About Transcendence

If you are in Christ, you've been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God.
~ Paul David Tripp
Every infinity... is made finite to God.
~ Saint Augustine
The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.
~ Deepak Chopra
You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.
~ Desmond Tutu
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
~ Florence Nightingale
Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.
~ George Harrison
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.
~ Georges Bataille
Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.
~ Alfred Jarry
The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.
~ Annie Lennox
The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
~ C. S. Lewis
All but God is changing day by day.
~ Charles Kingsley
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
One of the things I've realized is how portable God is. No really, He's everywhere!
~ Tracee Ellis Ross
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.
~ John Updike
Space is the stature of God.
~ Joseph Joubert
Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
~ Karen Armstrong
I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.
~ Lenny Bruce
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
All things are full of God.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art is the god you have not seen.
~ Mary Butts
It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.
~ Nicky Gumbel
God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles
~ Phil Collins
You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.
~ Rajneesh