Quotes about Transcendence

The question, then, the art, the task, the search, the challenge, the invitation is for you and me to become more and more the kind of people who are aware of the divine presence, attuned to the ruach

Heaven, for Jesus, wasn't less real, but more real.

heaven is not forever in the way that we think of forever, as a uniform measurement of time, like days and years, marching endlessly into the future. That's not a category or concept we find in the Bible. This is why a lot of translators choose to translate aion as "eternal." By this they don't mean the literal passing of time; they mean transcending time, belonging to another realm altogether.

He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

what kept coming back to me was that one word gift. Receiving, and then passing it along. Opening up to power and force and energy way beyond me, letting it move through me.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

If religion is only a garment of Christianity and even this garment has looked very different at different time then what is religion less Christianity?

A god who becomes a man shows mercy.A man who becomes a god does not.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.