Quotes about Depth
To stay on the surface of anything is invariably to miss its message—even the surface meaning of our sinfulness.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Matter and Spirit mirror one another and reveal the depths of one another.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Any kind of authentic God experience will usually feel like love or suffering, or both. It will connect you to Full Reality at ever-new breadths, and depths "until God will be all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:28).
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Unless religion leads us on a path to both depth and honesty, much religion is actually quite dangerous to the soul and to society.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The Holy Spirit is that aspect of God that works largely from within and "secretly," at "the deepest levels of our desiring," as so many of the mystics have said.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Far too many people just keep doing repair work on the container itself and never "throw their nets into the deep" (John 21:6)
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
- David Brainerd
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
- Martin Luther
True prayer is measured by weight, not by length
- Charles Spurgeon
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.
- Timothy Keller
There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
- David Platt