Quotes about Depth

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A poem is not merely ordinary thought with a few turns and twiddles added on to make it pretty or memorable. A poem (a good poem, at least) uses its poetic form to probe deeper into human experience than ordinary speech or writing is usually able to do, to pull back a veil and allow the hearer or reader to sense other dimensions.

Biblical truth is rich enough to satisfy all the hungers of the human personality.

We can know all about God, but not know Him at all. We

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

As the early church boasted rightly, the message of Jesus is both simple enough for a child to paddle in and deep enough for an elephant to swim in.

With the deepest things in life, there is always more to knowing than knowing will ever know, so the deepest knowledge must be learned in life, from experience, and under a master.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself—begin to have spiritual discernment.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him. Rushing in and out of worship is wrong every time—there is always plenty of time to worship God.