Quotes about Depth

Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.

The hidden dimension of each human life is not visible to others, nor is it fully graspable even by ourselves. We usually know very little about the things that move in our own soul, the deepest level of our life, or what is driving it. Our "within" is astonishingly complex and subtle—even devious. It takes on a life of its own. Only God knows our depths, who we are, and what we would do.

But taking love itself—God's kind of love—into the depths of our being through spiritual formation will, by contrast, enable us to act lovingly to an extent that will be surprising even to ourselves, at first.

If we do seek him, he will certainly find us, and then we, ever more deeply, find him.

Every time I say I love you I mean it more than the last time.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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

You have taken me and quieted me. You have been such light to me that others have been your shadows. You come near me with the nearness of sleep. --Marriage, Wendell Berry

We can invest trifles with a tragic profundity, which is the world.

The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth

No matter how deep we have gone, there is more.

Love in your mind can be felt by some, love in your heart can be felt by many, but love in your soul can be felt by all.