Quotes about Transcendence

My life is too short, and God's work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

Those who are not of this world can do little else to arrest the errors of the obstinately worldly.

Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Since happiness is nothing else than the enjoyment of the Supreme Good, and the Supreme Good is above us, no one can enjoy happiness unless he rises above himself.

Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.

Down in adoration falling,Lo! the sacred Host we hail;Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,Newer rites of grace prevail;Faith for all defects supplying,Where the feeble senses fail.

Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly

Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean!

What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

Notice to step out of time into eternity.