Quotes about Depth

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.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

Alas, that we should love by measure and weight, and not rather have floods and feasts of Christ's love! O, that Christ would break down the old narrow vessels of these narrow and ebb souls, and make fair, deep, wide, and broad souls, to hold a sea and a full tide, flowing over all its banks of Christ's love.

Life is deep, but our current politics is shallow. The history of this country is like the stuff of great art and philosophy, while our current politics is more on the level of gossip magazines. It is shallow and tawdry, an unworthy vehicle for grappling with the meaning of what we are going through. We need to think more deeply if we're to create more powerfully. We need to focus on a broader understanding of the American story and commit ourselves to rewriting it.

Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.