Quotes about Depth

I do have a life,' says Charis, blinking wet eyes. 'You have a rich inner life,' says Tony firmly. 'More than most.

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be.

I felt that in my strange new friends and in certain new books, I was meeting my other half. Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.) I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

The substitution of so-called "practical" preaching for the doctrinal exposition which it has supplanted is the root cause of many of the evil maladies which now afflict the church of God. The reason why there is so little depth, so little intelligence, so little grasp of the fundamental verities of Christianity, is because so few believers have been established in the faith, through hearing expounded and through their own personal study of the doctrines of grace.

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.

There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.

Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotions.

O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.