Quotes About Transcendence

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God?

If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.

God cannot be realized through intellect.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

Art means: revealing God in everything that exists.

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.

The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this. In other words, we are here to love.

God is speaking. He is, by His nature, continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice.

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.

We walk upon the grace of god. Nothing else exists except that.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

You are within God. God is within you.