The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the great Physician.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you

Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Your heart understood mine. In the depth of the fragrant night, I listened with ravished soul to your beloved voice. Your heart understood mine.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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

I find myself frequently depressed – perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer … Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader’s leg or was even an imposter.

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.

Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

You can’t control the length of your life. You can control the depth.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

I don’t want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.