Quotes About Transcendence

All things pray except the First

The best part of beauty is that which boggles the soul.

The brightening of the soul is one of the issues that cannot be implied or imagined with any limits in the Universe.

I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

Mortal as I am,' he wrote, 'I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the Earth. . .

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

Cerrar podrá mis ojos la postrera sombra, que me llevare el blanco día

spiritual discipline frees us from the gravity of this present age and allows us to soar with the saints and angels.

Perhaps the most shockingly transcendent thing about the God we worship is that He is pleased to stoop down to us, to draw near, to know us, love us, walk with us, and call us all by name.

You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless.

When you totally forgive your enemy, you have crossed over into the supernatural realm. Perhaps you are like me and wish

What makes a bit of ground holy? It is when and where God shows up. He can do this anywhere at any time. This means that the most insignificant place can be declared holy when God moves in. It can come when you least expect it.

When he played, though—when he played he could liquefy your soul. He walked on water—well, his fingers did—liquid supple and fluid smooth, running, dripping, flowing.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

There is no day nor night, nor form nor colour, and never, never a word. (#67)

The song being great in its own wealth, why should it wait upon the words? Rather does it begin where mere words fail. Its power lies in the region of the inexpressible; it tells us what the words cannot.

Our music draws the listener away, beyond the limits of everyday human joys and sorrows, and takes us to that lonely region of renunciation which lies to the root of the universe, while European music leads us to a variegated dance through the endless rise and fall of human grief and joy.

Love is the highest bliss that man can attain to, for through it alone he truly knows that he is more than himself, and that he is at one with the All.

Wherever our heart touches the One, in the small or the big, it finds the touch of the infinite.

In appearance Sachish gives the impression of a celestial being. His eyes glow; his long, slender fingers are like tongues of flame; the colour of his skin is more a luminescence than a colour. As soon as I set eyes on him I seemed to glimpse his inner self; and from that moment I loved him.