Quotes about Transcendence
She had a sense of being past everything, through everything, out of everything, as she helped the soup. as if there was an eddy--there--and one could be in it, or one could be out of it, and she was out of it.
— Virginia Woolf
In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances
— Virginia Woolf
Moses' vision of God began with light; afterwards God spoke to him in a cloud. But when Moses rose higher and became more perfect, he saw God in the darkness.
— Gregory of Nyssa
Time had not altered the beauty of his countenance, nor darkened the brightness of his eyes. He continued on the same, preserved in an incorruptible beauty in the corruptibleness of nature.
— Gregory of Nyssa
Those who have "died" and returned usually report being met and guided by people they know very well—even those already dead many years.
— James Garlow
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
— Michelangelo
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
— Brennan Manning
The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
— Thomas Merton
God comes down to us by his Spirit, and we go up to him by prayer.
— Thomas Watson
To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3.
— Thomas Watson