Quotes about Transcendence
You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.
— Tina Turner
Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!
— David Brainerd
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
— John of the Cross
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
— Evelyn Underhill
God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
God is huge! He is ginormous! He is greater than every thought we have ever had of Him.
— Louie Giglio
It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.
— Mother Teresa
He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
— Victor Hugo
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
— Pope John Paul II
I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
— John Donne
When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.
— AW Tozer