Quotes about Depth
Without an inner life, our outer prayer will soon become superficial, ego-centered, and even counterproductive on the spiritual path.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Fullness in a person cannot permit love because there are no openings, no handles, no give-and-take, and no deep hunger.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
To stay on the surface of anything is invariably to miss its message—even the surface meaning of our sinfulness.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Matter and Spirit mirror one another and reveal the depths of one another.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Any kind of authentic God experience will usually feel like love or suffering, or both. It will connect you to Full Reality at ever-new breadths, and depths "until God will be all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:28).
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Unless religion leads us on a path to both depth and honesty, much religion is actually quite dangerous to the soul and to society.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The Holy Spirit is that aspect of God that works largely from within and "secretly," at "the deepest levels of our desiring," as so many of the mystics have said.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Far too many people just keep doing repair work on the container itself and never "throw their nets into the deep" (John 21:6)
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
— David Brainerd
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
— Martin Luther
True prayer is measured by weight, not by length
— Charles Spurgeon
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
— Madeleine L'Engle