Quotes about Depth
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.
— AW Tozer
Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.
— Billy Graham
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
— Graham Greene
The substitution of so-called "practical" preaching for the doctrinal exposition which it has supplanted is the root cause of many of the evil maladies which now afflict the church of God. The reason why there is so little depth, so little intelligence, so little grasp of the fundamental verities of Christianity, is because so few believers have been established in the faith, through hearing expounded and through their own personal study of the doctrines of grace.
— AW Pink
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There is no subterfuge in you, Miss Adeline. Why is that?" Color came and went in her cheeks. "Everyone has layers. Even me." He leaned closer as his son neared and allowed a curl to wrap his finger. "I look forward to peeling back those layers.
— Colleen Coble
It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.
— Andy Stanley
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
— St. Jerome
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.
— Martin Luther
The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.
— William Alexander
It is only in the context of understanding something of God's character, of his righteousness and perfection, that we begin to understand the tremendous nature of saying that God truly is love, and his love has a depth, texture, fullness, and beauty to it that we, in our present state, can only begin to wonder at.
— Mark Dever
On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka "nested dolls" that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)
— Philip Yancey