Quotes about Transcendence
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
- St. Augustine
We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
- Marianne Williamson
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
- CS Lewis
It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.
- St Bonaventure
True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
- William Barclay
The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no me, the me would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a me. This me of the infinite is God.
- Victor Hugo
Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no one is happy.
- Victor Hugo
There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.
- Victor Hugo
Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul.
- Victor Hugo
Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?
- Victor Hugo
To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
- Victor Hugo
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
- Milan Kundera