Quotes About Profound

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

What I know about love, I can write on the head of a matchstick.

I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies. pg. xvi

Keating leaned back with a sense of warmth and well-being. He liked this book. It had made the routine of his Sunday morning breakfast a profound spiritual experience; he was certain that it was profound, because he didn't understand it.

A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason about it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom"—this

As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

All of which underscores perhaps the most profound shift in Indonesia—the growth of militant, fundamentalist Islam in the country.

To be inspired is to feel God funnelling into one's work. We always want light from the darkness. We know something is there before we see it. The objective for a writer is to try to get some part of the face of a God on a piece of paper. It is a fearful undertaking going into something profound without knowing what you are looking for. Beauty is incomprehensible. Isn't that what God is? Witnessing the loss of beauty and the enduring effort to restore beauty, isn't this God?

It is, after all, not man but the universe that is subtle.

so profound an insight into God that for a century and a half he was branded a dangerous atheist...

However profound the threats are that confront us today, they are solvable, if we acknowledge the underlying problem, if we listen to science and not superstition

These experiences were profound Ã¢â'¬â€ people were radically different on the other side. Happier, more content, significantly more fulfilled.

To encounter erotica designed to appeal to the other sex is to gaze into the psychological abyss that separates the sexes. Ã¢â'¬Â¦ The contrasts between romance novels and porn videos are so numerous and profound that they can make one marvel that men and women ever get together at all, much less stay together and successfully rear children."64

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express

Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.

My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness.

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us.

There will always be people better than you—that's a cliché of nihilism, like the phrase, In a million years, who's going to know the difference? The proper response to that statement is not, Well, then, everything is meaningless. It's, Any idiot can choose a frame of time within which nothing matters. Talking yourself into irrelevance is not a profound critique of Being. It's a cheap trick of the rational mind.

These individuals tend to be profoundly ignorant of the complex realities of the status quo, unconscious of their own ignorance, and ungrateful for what the past has bequeathed to them.