Quotes about Depth
Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
- Ann Voskamp
I find a lot of really hot people to be extremely boring because they haven't had to work at it.
- Drew Barrymore
I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.
- Graham Greene
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
- Graham Greene
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.
- Graham Greene
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.
- Graham Greene
I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.
- LM Montgomery
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
What seems to be a stone is a drama.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The self-control of passion, the reshaping of his image of the world, the elimination of the sense of merit, the change of language, the effect of his profession on the structure of his life, all hint at the depth of this crisis.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer