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"There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley."
"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."
"Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered."
"My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit."
"God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls."
"The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief."
"Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness."
"Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin."
"Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences."
"You have to learn to recognize your own depth."
"The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body"
"Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love."
"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."
"Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious"
"Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth."
"It's not how many followers you have, it's how many care. It's not width, it's depth. It's not how many impressions you get, it's how much attention you get."
"Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths."
"My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light."
"[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting."
"Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom."
