Depth Quotes · Page 61

It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing…

— Thomas Merton

Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in…

— Paulo Coelho

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

— Alan Moore

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

— Helen Keller

One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their…

— Maggie Stiefvater

He who knows about depth knows about God.

— Paul Tillich

Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible…

— Sarah Stillman

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath

— Anonymous

To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history…

— James Gibbons

[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.

— Julio Cortazar

My dad told me he wanted me to join in the business, but nothing was firm. He was quite young when he…

— Azim Premji

A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background,…

— Donny Osmond

Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then…

— Blaise Pascal

And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like…

— John Buchan

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents,…

— Ursula Hegi

That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should…

— Hilaire Belloc

But sometimes, that depth of need—to save, to protect—can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to…

— Nalini Singh

It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not…

— Orville Redenbacher

The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined.…

— Winston Churchill

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her…

— Honore de Balzac

Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction,…

— Aisha Hinds

Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has…

— Stefan Zweig

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel