Quotes About Immanence

#1. Liberation is the path of transcendence. Manifestation is the path of immanence. Both lead to the same place: the divine.

Anodea Judith

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

Arthur Peacocke

#5. Not surprisingly, where Barnes really appreciates the haunting of immanence is in the realm of the aesthetic.

James K.A. Smith

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

Arthur Middleton

#10. The self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.

Walker Percy

#11. Magick is a doorway through which we step into mystery, wildness, and immanence.

Phil Hine

#12. We head for the horizon, on the plane of immanence, and we return with bloodshot eyes, yet they are the eyes of the mind.

Gilles Deleuze

#13. Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.

T. Thorn Coyle

#14. What was not possessed of the 'fat light'--an immanence that shed radiance over the world of gross matter--should be left to the portraitists of sausage-shaped ladies and their rich consorts.

Norman Lock

#15. Aren't we all depressed, Detective? Under the weight of all this unbearable immanence?

Ben H. Winters

#16. The symmetries of immanence are cruel.

George Steiner

#17. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it ... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

Robert Redford

#19. For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has led to unsustainable fishing and economic practices. If we instead ask the ocean what it is willing to supply, we engage in an inherently more sustainable relationship.

Barton Seaver

#20. Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.

Suze Orman

#21. Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.

William Gibson

#22. ...you rarely get more than one chance in this world.

Stephen King

#23. It is consoling that he who must judge us dwell in us to save us always from all of our miseries, and to pardon us.

Therese De Lisieux