Quotes about Transcendence
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
— John Updike
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
The soul needs something extra, a place outside matter where it can stand. The Bible—think of it as the primer of a language whereby we can talk to one another about what matters to us most. It is our starting point, not the end point.
— John Updike
Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and the temporal.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.
— Paul Tillich
Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'
— James Allen
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
— Margaret Atwood
God," he said, "is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
— Margaret Silf
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
— Marianne Williamson
In the faces of men and women I see God.
— Walt Whitman
This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.
— Martin Luther