Quotes about Depth

A sword can only pierce the body, but love can pierce the soul.

Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

She felt different from the rest of them, with their hard, easy, shallow intimacy, that seemed to cost them so little.

It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interests , the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.

Whoever you are holding me now in hand, Without one thing all will be useless, I give you fair warning before you attempt me further, I am not what you supposed, but far different. -from Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

Music reaches people at a level that is beneath their DNA. Dad was right. Again. Music exposes what and who we worship.

In the end, only something endowed with mystery is worthy of love. It is impossible to love something stripped of mystery; at best it would be a thing one uses as one sees fit.

he praises the unknowability of the world and the miracles, far exceeding all comprehension, that lie hidden in the unfathomable depths of the least of its parts. Only such a sense of reverence can be the true presupposition for knowing the far more unknowable God.