Quotes about Transcendence

That name--my conception of Him--extended to me a hand that led to a place where even His divine name could not exist. Why?

I will pass then beyond this power of my nature also, rising by degrees unto Him Who made me.

A very great matter is at stake when the true and truly holy divinity is commended to men as that which they ought to seek after and to worship; not, however, on account of the transitory vapor of mortal life, but on account of life eternal, which alone is blessed.

These philosophers, then, whom we see not undeservedly exalted above the rest in fame and glory, have seen that no material body is God, and therefore they have transcended all bodies in seeking for God.

How did I burn then, my God, how did I burn to re-mount from earthly things to Thee, nor knew I what Thou wouldest do with me? For with Thee is wisdom.

For it appears to be possible that a soul of a higher order may inhabit a body of a lower, and a soul of a lower order a body of a higher.

For heaven shall be folded up like a scroll; and now is it stretched over us like a skin.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.

God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.

Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.