Quotes about Transcendence

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.

Say: "He is God, One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten, and has not been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone."

Sweet little flower of heavenly birth You were too fair to bloom on earth.

Deep calleth unto deep.

Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, though you should be in raised-up towers.

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.