Profound Quotes - Page 33

• All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Color, Void, Masters

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.92, Faber & Faber

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• Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

  Richard Rohr

  Listening, Suffering, Vision

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• Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds passage to the listener's soul, striking his or her heart and causing it to sing out; the human voice summons something profound from deep within, and can even compel a person into action.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Caring, Compassion

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• It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Lying, Men

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• When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Believe, Rescue

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• Every profound spirit needs a mask.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Needs, Spirit, Mask

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.241, Modern Library

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• Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a
  profound power to help build our nation

  Nelson Mandela

  Heritage, Helping, Rich

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• Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Simplicity, Secret

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• Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Spring, Heart

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates.
  Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Commitment, Goal

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• The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Communion, Activity

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.23, Discovery House

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• What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Simple, Portraits, Obvious

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• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Marriage, Matter, Wonder

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.316, Wildside Press LLC

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• The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.

  Pope Francis

  Matter, Today, Causes

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• Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Music, Thinking, Giving

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• There is nothing mysterious about the principles of the gospel. We have studied them in the scriptures, we have discussed them in Sunday School, and we have heard them from the pulpit many times. These divine principles and values are straightforward and clear; they are beautiful, profound, and powerful; and they can definitely help us to avoid future regrets.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Beautiful, Powerful, Regret

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• I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find profound belonging, that I might find a hidden source of love and compassion. Like a homing instinct for freedom, my intuitive sense that this was possible was the faint, flickering, yet undeniable expression of faith.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Heart, Greatness

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.18, Penguin

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• In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

  Irving Penn

  Photography, Lying, Believe

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• How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Way, Abstract

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• Love for family and friends, great as it may be, is much more profound when anchored in the love of Jesus Christ. Parental love for children has more meaning here and hereafter because of Him. All loving relationships are elevated in Him. Love of our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ provides the illumination, inspiration, and motivation to love others in a loftier way.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Jesus, Children, Motivation

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• Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

  Francis Chan

  Light, Color, Grace

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.96, David C Cook

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• My eyebrows make a more profound impact on [other] people than they do on me... I just let 'em grow.

  Peter Gallagher

  Impact, Eyebrows, People

  "Peter Gallagher Raises an Eyebrow". Interview with Rochell D Thomas, www.tvguide.com. October 7, 2003.

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• God wants you to find your way back to Him, and the Savior is the way. God wants you to learn of His Son, Jesus Christ, and experience the profound peace and joy that come from following the path of divine discipleship.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Son, Joy

  "Receiving a Testimony of Light and Truth". General Conference, www.lds.org. October 2014.

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• Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told... Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Book, Grandparent

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• Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Love Is, Self

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.278, Penguin

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