Quotes about Depth

The wise man is the one who sees reality as it is, and who sees into the depths of things. That is why only that man is wise who sees reality in God. To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

see the hidden meaning of Scripture in all its fullness (for the word of God is a pearl and may be pierced on every side)

I have done so for two reasons: First, that we might see the depth of God's love, not only in giving His one and only Son, but in giving Him to die for such people as Paul has described us to be.

Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

Anne, it's not the color of the balloon that is important. It's what's inside that makes all the difference.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.