Quotes about Depths
Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths,
- Psalm 148:7
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
- Proverbs 3:20
But hail will level the forest, and the city will sink to the depths.
- Isaiah 32:19
I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
- Lamentations 3:55
Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.
- Ezekiel 27:34
Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.’”
- Ezekiel 31:18
“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
- Ezekiel 32:18
Beneath the head lies the heart, out of which are the issues of life.
- Herman Bavinck
Where the spiritual self steeps itself in its unconscious depths, there occur the phenomena of conscience, love, and art. Where it happens the other way around... we have to deal with a neurosis or a psychosis, depending on whether the case is psychogenic or somatogenic.
- Viktor E. Frankl
And as she lost consciousness of outer things, and her name and her personality and her appearance, and whether Mr. Carmichael was there or not, her mind kept throwing up from its depths, scenes, and names, and sayings, and memories and ideas, like a fountain spurting over that glaring, hideously difficult white space, while she modelled it with greens and blues.
- Virginia Woolf
Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them.
- Cormac McCarthy
In the union of person and existence are forced to draw together, and from the same depths of being—which is more than all intelligible essence—arises the invitation of a personal God to his created child, an event that belongs to another realm altogether than all the in-built natural orientations—however mystical—of intellectual beings.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar