Quotes about Depth

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

To deal only with the superficial trivia without seeing deeper, more tender issues is to trample on the sacred ground of another's heart.

Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.

The depth is simply the height inverted, as sin is the index of moral grandeur. The cry is not only truly human, but divine as well. God is deeper than the deepest depth in man. He is holier than our deepest sin is deep. There is no depth so deep to us as when God reveals his holiness in dealing with our sin.... [And so] think more of the depth of God than the depth of your cry. The worst thing that can happen to a man is to have no God to cry to out of the depth.

I wish he'd show you how wisdom looks from the inside, for true wisdom is mostly 'inside.

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.

God has already pursued us with a love so totally overwhelming that it will take all of eternity to plumb its depths.

That depth at which he goes in me determines how far he goes out of me. It's a personal encounter. It's not our commitment to healing. It's not our commitment to evangelism. It's not our commitment to any of these things. It's our commitment to the person, to live faithfully with a person.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.