Quotes about Transcendence
The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.
— John Calvin
Anyone who cannot bear to lay hold of God as he comes down to him will still less soar up to him beyond the clouds.
— John Calvin
Since Christ, our Head, has ascended to heaven, we should leave our carnal desires behind and lift our hearts upward to him.
— John Calvin
Since I am coming to that holy room,Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore,I shall be made thy music; as I comeI tune the instrument here at the door,And what I must do then, think here before.
— John Donne
As yet God suspends me between heaven and earth, as a meteor; and I am not in heaven because an earthly body clogs me, and I am not in the earth because a heavenly soul sustains me.
— John Donne
As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.
— Henri Nouwen
We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.
— Paulo Coelho
There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.
— Arianna Huffington
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
— John Updike
All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.
— CS Lewis
Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
— John Updike
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
— Walt Whitman