Quotes About Depth

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

Do not touch me and keep your soul out of your fingertips... Die into me or don't come to me at all.

When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first time.

As the early church boasted rightly, the message of Jesus is both simple enough for a child to paddle in and deep enough for an elephant to swim in.

Greed did not cover it, nor did vanity. Nor was it simply a combination of lust and greed. I wasn't sure what it was, but I felt that there was something inexplicable at the bottom of human society which was not reducible to economics.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.

If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself—begin to have spiritual discernment.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him. Rushing in and out of worship is wrong every time—there is always plenty of time to worship God.

To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps; the ocean has a shore.

Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

Only from within himself can a person know the depth of the world: in him lie the interconnections of the world.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

He loved her. It was as simple and as complicated as that.

Sex makes you get real.