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“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.”

Action Religion Consciousness Moral Ought Depth Tension Dimensions Bows Arrows Moral Action

Book:An Interpretation of Christian Ethics

Source: An Interpretation of Christian Ethics

“I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.”

Writing Mind Fall Term Grief Depth Metaphor Myth Planning Height Rising Flats

Author:Julian Barnes

“May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air.”

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

Moments Heaven Depth That Moment Maximum

Author:Julio Cortazar

“You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.”

Feels Sometimes Hard Light Seems Universe Heaven Grows Sun Clear Share Land Flower Roots Depth Grass Soil Farms Rays Cosmic Blades Crowded Digging Exaltation Expanse Blades Of Grass Pettiness

Author:A. D. Gordon

“Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is cast in the fire and thoroughly hammered with mallets, so when the soul has been tarnished with the rust of sin and become thoroughly useless it cannot be cleansed and recover its original beauty unless it meets many trials and enter into the furnace of tribulations.”

Has Beens Soul Christian Sin Fire Gold Originals Depth Casts Trials Useless Orthodox Brightness Rust Tribulation Cfs Furnaces Hammered

Author:Symeon the New Theologian

“Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.”

Knows World Firsts Interest Knowledge Depth

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is not to pray, but to go directly to God. . . . The fact is, though, that if you descend into the depths of your own spirit and arrive somewhere near the center of what you are, you are confronted with the inescapable truth that, at the very root of your existence, you are in constant and immediate contact with the infinite power of God.”

Ifs Facts Spirit Prayer Existence Danger Praying Roots Infinite Constant Depth Great Things Contact Praying To God Power Of God Infinite Power

Author:Thomas Merton

“Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces quiet desperation. High well-being is a life that has depth and quality. Risks, losses, problems, and tragedy add pain to a life. That pain becomes a teacher. We learn; the pain gives us no choice.”

Source: Success Is the Quality of Your Journey

“In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.”

Source: My Pillow Book

“The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to the universe, and the Ground of all being, the aim of our life.”

Soul Spirit Universe Our Lives Aim Depth Intimate Humankind

Book:The Shaking of the Foundations

Source: The Shaking of the Foundations

“At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they seem to cling together, And form 'associations' here, Yet, soon or late, they burst their tether, And through the depths of space career.”

Seems Together Form Science Left Space Careers Path Late Embrace Depth Heavenly Atoms Association Uncertain Fortuitous Uncertain Times

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.”

Soul Political Politics Depth Surrender

Book:The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.”

Years Age Universe Stars Space Cities Darkness Growing Dying Depth Billions Candle Fades Galaxy Celestial Graveyard Memorabilia

Author:Edward Robert Harrison

“The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.”

Humans Human Nature Changed Ignorance Depth Ignorant Tiresome Platitudes

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.”

Littles Feelings Certain Universe Essence Regard Depth Mysticism Intensity

Book:Mysticism and Logic

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.”

Self Creation Capacity Depth Divinity True Self Transcendence Real Self

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments, should be running about like blind hens, ignorant of our own self and of the depth within us?”

Self Blind Depth Ignorant Hens

Author:Johannes Tauler

“Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.”

People Want Kind Book Soul Helping Dream Literature Realizing Worst Reader Horror Office Highest Intention Depth Workers Missions Saved Hated Boss Great Literature Repulsion

Author:Ernesto Sabato

“Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.”

Feels War Suffering Capacity Misery Strive Depth Scales Staggering Suffering Of Others

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first seems to reflect only our own image; but behind it we soon discover the inner turmoils of our soul - its depth, and ways to gain peace within ourselves and with the world, which is the reward of our struggles.”

World Way Firsts Soul Seems Behinds Struggle Quiet Gains Rewards Depth Communicate Tales Fairy Pool Fairy Tale Turmoil Peace Within

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.”

Should Community Rooms Democracy Talent Depth Renewal Turnover

Author:Bob Brown

“The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.”

Men Talent Surprise Depth All Time Candy Surprise Me All Time Favorite

Book:'Tis Herself: An Autobiography

Source: 'Tis Herself: An Autobiography

“I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.”

Thinking Knows Kind Different Moments Happiness Depth Different Kinds Afterglow

Author:Ariel Gore

“When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.”

People May Matter Literature Loses Taken Depth Confusion Charming Bluffs

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.”

Form Three Space Protect Depth Surface Planes Height Abstract Infinity Transfers Width

Book:Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

“I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more.”

Thinking States Problem America United Talking Worry United States Cutting Ought Threat Depth Debt United States Of America

Author:Jason Chaffetz

“There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.”

Moments Depth Casts Overwhelming

Author:Bill Condon

“I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.”

Thinking Real Problem Today Artist Felt Losing Impact Depth Albums Bother Real Problems Politically Correct

Author:Gary Allan

“The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.”

Shows Levels Sea Land Materials Products Areas Depth Layers Lowest Horizontal

Author:Georges Cuvier

“What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.”

Knows Giving Helping Today Computer Blue Method Depth Definitions Links Simplest Somewhere Else Clicks

Author:Robert Cailliau

“In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.”

Author:Rudolf Carnap

“I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.”

Needs Writing I Can Book Character Imagine Hero Depth Writing A Book

Author:Upamanyu Chatterjee

“There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.”

Want Reading Generations Depth Size Phones Screens Commit Data Length Mobile Evaluate Mobile Phones Cellular

Author:Nick D'Aloisio

“Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.”

People Knows Done School Stuff Environment Movement Fields Cameras Depth Boxes Curriculum Old School Optics Depth Of Field

Author:John Dykstra

“The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.”

Depth Unemployment Great Depression Picnics

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly.”

Trying Years Has Beens Able Games Goal Team Depth Get Back Ranking

Author:Roger Federer

“Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.”

Thinking Years Wells Play Able Lasts Film Mother Three Roles Taken Four Baby Drug Depth Handle Four Years Addict Jam Drug Addict

Author:Anna Friel

“The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.”

Way Matter Hard Body Science Depth Heavy Senses Length Breadth

Author:Rene Descartes

“Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.”

Politics Process Business Democracy Politician Capable Democratic Depth Tolerance Businessman Democratic Process

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious; and religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis.”

Religious Prove Bases Depth Separation Proportion Twins Science And Religion True Religion Firmness Twin Sister

Author:Thomas Huxley

“If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own heart, and, in essence, it elevates me so that I am just a mildly flawed imitation of God rather than someone completely dependent on Him.”

Ifs Thinking Heart My Own Sin Essence Depth Dependent Righteousness Imitation Irrelevant Flawed Self Righteous Self Righteousness

Author:Edward T Welch

“Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.”

Faces Joy Religion Religious Cry Depth True God

Author:PJ Harvey

“In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.”

Thinking Feels Universe Greater Relation Depth

Author:Jessi Colter

“The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.”

Looks Has Beens Stills Depth Delicate Shells Worn Fathom

Author:Edward Forbes

“I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.”

Jobs Cities Fashion New York Depth Collections New York City Frivolous Levity

Author:Prabal Gurung

“I started my career by becoming a stalker, watching women in the street, the way they greet each other. I thought if I could capture some of that expression, that depth of emotion, it will make me interesting to watch as an actor.”

Ifs Way Actors Interesting Emotion Careers Watches Streets Expression Becoming Depth If I Could Capture

Author:Bob Hoskins

“Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.”

People Knows Writing Persons Whole Character Depth Lists Mike

Author:Jane Horrocks

“Even a song on the radio that completely lacks substance is there for a reason. Sometimes, people need a break from cold reality; the song that you really don't have to put that much thought power into can be just as entertaining as something that might take you on a three- or four-minute cruise through the depth of reality.”

People Needs Sometimes Reason Reality Might Song Three Break Four Minutes Cold Depth Radio Substance Entertaining Cruise

Author:Jamey Johnson

“Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.”

Character Able Actors Lines Wonderful Depth My Favorite Uniqueness

Author:Thomas Jane