Quotes about Transcendence
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
Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.
- Marianne Williamson
The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
- William Wordsworth