Quotes about Depth
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
— St. Jerome
Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
— Audre Lorde
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
— Tony Robbins
Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.
— Karen Kingsbury
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
— Samuel Beckett
It is only in the context of understanding something of God's character, of his righteousness and perfection, that we begin to understand the tremendous nature of saying that God truly is love, and his love has a depth, texture, fullness, and beauty to it that we, in our present state, can only begin to wonder at.
— Mark Dever
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
— Martin Luther
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love.
— Anonymous
There are mysteries about out love. Things that neither one of us may ever understand because love is an emotion without limit and understanding. We know we love each other but we could never explain completely as WHY we love each other. Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what makes it tick, and even if you could, you probably could never get it back together again.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. and Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.
— Emily Bronte