Quotes about Transcendence

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

We're not a product of time. We are a product of eternity.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

Your human self might be in hell right now, but your divine self is literally untouched by your suffering. And your divine self is who you are.

Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.

The only point where eternity meets time is in the present.

Even if our contact with eternal beings is slight, none the less because of its surpassing value this knowledge is a greater pleasure than our knowledge of everything around us.

The timeless instant passed.

I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

The root meaning of the Old Testament word for holiness is the idea of being separate—different and separated from the ordinary. And when applied to God, this separateness implies that he is in a class by himself. He is like a one-of-a-kind diamond, supremely valuable. We can use the word transcendent for this kind of divine separateness. He is so uniquely separate that he transcends all other reality. He is above it and more valuable than all of it.