Transcendent Quotes

164 Transcendent quotes by 145 unique authors

Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream — Mike Birbiglia
The land is like poetry:Â Â it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration… — Barry Lopez
Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good. — Amy Lowell
Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold… — Mahatma Gandhi
Grace is more than mercy and love. It super-adds to them. It denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendent Superior. One… — Thomas Goodwin
How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people. — Confucius
Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him so He could… — Joseph Stowell
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only… — Thomas Merton
The transcendent importance of love and goodwill in all human relations is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and society. — Unknown Author
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead… — Igor Stravinsky
Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved...… — Emmanuel Levinas
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which… — Rudolf Bultmann
The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather… — John Rawls
It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the… — A.J. Ayer
For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent… — Sasha Cagen
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all. — Thomas Carlyle
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation… — Mircea Eliade
Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus… — R C Sproul
Being in love is the only transcendent experience. — Armistead Maupin
God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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