Quotes about Depth

My sweetest daughter," he whispered, "in whom I see no fault, know the depths of love. A love that knows no fear. A love that formed you and named you and gave you to me. A blessing beyond my understanding." His fingers trembled. "Eli is the gift I bring you. Hear him. Keep him safe. He knows the way out of this great deception.

There was no life above the surface anyway.

There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.

The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

If you see in me more than my function or job, then I can slowly communicate to you on a deeper level. I can become a person to you.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Genius is full of trash.

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; and if he don't attain the bottom, why all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now -but of the whole corps of thought-divers, that have been diving and coming up again with bloodshot eyes since the world began.

The best richness is the richness of the soul

The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.