Unfathomable Depth Quotes

God's LOVE is Like an Ocean; You can See its Beginning, but not its end.

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart

Love can never be fully explained.

One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there’s always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.

Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.

I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.

Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people--what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest level of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.