Immanence Vs Transcendence Quotes & Sayings

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. — Albert Bandura

Liberation is the path of transcendence. Manifestation is the path of immanence. Both lead to the same place: the divine. — Anodea Judith

It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship. — Nicky Gumbel

He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world. — Elton Trueblood

Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise? — Victor Hugo

A soul loves most what is lost. — C.E. Morgan

The question of God, by contrast, is one that can and must be pursued in terms of the absolute and the contingent, the necessary and the fortuitous, potency and act, possibility and impossibility, being and nonbeing, transcendence and immanence. — David Bentley Hart

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure. — Clint Eastwood

The self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption. — Walker Percy

Insofar as the intervention of grace constitutes the core of religious experience, the constant aim of every religious movement ought to be a reduction of transcendence coupled with an unswerving dedication to immanence. Let metaphysics and science pursue the elaboration of transcendent, causal economies; the domain of religion is immanence and, more precisely, the immanence of what is actually given as a gift. Religious thinking will be religious in character precisely to the extent that it is capable of faithfully thinking immanence. Religion, for the sake of grace, forsakes transcendence. — Adam Miller

Through the Offering you are allowing others to love you. And you are teaching others to love through what you offer them. — Paulo Coelho

Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship. — Ron Paul

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. — A.A. Milne

If you have no family or friends to aid you ... turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune. — Horace Greeley

Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself. — T. Thorn Coyle

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. — Bryant H. McGill

Today the combat takes a different shape; instead of wishing to put man in a prison, woman endeavors to escape from one; she no longer seeks to drag him into the realms of immanence but to emerge, herself, into the light of transcendence. Now the attitude of the males creates a new conflict: it is with a bad grace that the man lets her go. — Ira Levin

The holiness of the real
Is always there, accessible
In total immanence. The nodes
Of transcendence coagulate
In you, the experiencer,
And in the other, the lover. — Kenneth Rexroth

The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases us from the need to decide between beautiful and ugly, between real and unreal, between transcendence and immanence. — Jean Baudrillard

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased. — Felix Adler

The center will hold.
Will it, Sydney? I wondered.
Because I'm falling apart. — Richelle Mead

Everything, it seems, revolves on this reversibility of higher and lower case It/it. The miracle consists in the transubstantiation of higher into lower, extraordinary into ordinary, transcendence into immanence. And vice versa. It is a moment both kenotic (the emptying of Word into flesh) and eucharistic (the celebration of the infinite in the finite bread and wine of quotidian experience). — Richard Kearney

The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference. — Paul Newman