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Quotes About Transcendence

Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.
~ Henry Parry Liddon
Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.
~ Ingmar Bergman
We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.
~ J. I. Packer
Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.
~ J. I. Packer
What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train.
~ John Maynard Keynes
The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
~ John Templeton
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
~ Joseph Campbell
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
~ Joseph Joubert
It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
~ Kenneth Lee Pike
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
~ Voltaire
God reigns from the deepest depths to the highest heights.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I wanted to stand on the kind of holy ground that wasn't curated by church professionals, where a burning bush could blaze forth in defiance of safety regulations and outside of regular office hours.
~ Sara Miles
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
~ C.S. Lewis
Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I've always wished to make a god.
~ Pierce Brown, Red Rising
The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails
~ James Joyce
Is it not the same distance to God everywhere?
~ Epictetus, Of Human Freedom
The divine is always abominable."Houses Under The Sea
~ Caitlín R. Kiernan
Eternity to eternity, God is God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't believe in Religion. I believe in Connection, Relationship and Spirituality.
~ Izey Victoria Odiase
The greatness of God knows no end.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The invisible God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita