Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.
In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.
God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.
The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.
When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love demands sacrifice, you will give it without question. You will not look for reasons, for justification - the act of giving, of sacrificing, is a natural compulsion, like breathing, and it will, in the end, surprise you because you did it without second thoughts.
Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.
If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking. ' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.
There is no difference in our souls. . . That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our cultures and classes. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. We are no different in our deepest needs. We are all humans.
Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.
Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity; but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our "biography", our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit card. . . It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are?
I feel things more deeply. . . anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life. . . Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.
It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.
Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.