Quotes about Transcendence

All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

Joy comes from having a relationship with the unchanging God and transcends any trial we can face on this earth.

human language is inadequate to the divine praise

The Word was made flesh that we might pass from the flesh into the Word.

God's love always transcends human love, even human family love, in its ability to reach out to those in need.

Tim Keller writes, "When the church as a whole is no longer seen as speaking to questions that transcend politics, and when it is no longer united by a common faith that transcends politics, then the world sees strong evidence that Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx were right, that religion is really just a cover for people wanting to get their way in the world."13

Prayer takes us well beyond human possibilities.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

There is within you a yearning for the divine that nothing else can satisfy.