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We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

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Pat Riley
American - Coach
Born: March 20, 1945

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

Lance Secretan

...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.

Nicole Krauss

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

Arthur Golden

Into each of our lives come golden moments of adversity. This painful friend breaks our hearts, drops us to our knees, and makes us realize we are nothing without our Lord and Savior. This friend makes us plead all the night long for reassurance and into the next day and sometimes for weeks and months. But, ultimately, just as surely as the day follows the night, as we remain true and faithful, this strange friend, adversity, leads us straight into the outstretched arms of the Savior.

Glenn L. Pace

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness.

James E. Talmage

God in His infinite wisdom knows exactly what adversity we need to grow more and more into the likeness of His Son. He not only knows what we need but when we need it and how best to bring it to pass in out lives. He is the perfect teacher or coach. His discipline is always exactly suited for our needs. He never overtrains by allowing too much adversity into our lives.

Jerry Bridges

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

John Locke

The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.

Joyce Carol Oates

I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.

Elizabeth Taylor

How do we handle adversity? Adversity is going to be with us in everything that we do, almost in every facet of our lives-in our personal associations, in the mission field, in our chosen professions, in our families.

LaVell Edwards

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Zig Ziglar

Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

Hall Caine

True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being

Bill McCartney

Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

Paul Morabito

We all have within us a deep sense of what we need, and what is right and true for us. To access this we need to pay attention to our feelings and our intuition. We need to learn to listen deeply to ourselves and to trust what we hear. And we need to risk acting on what we feel to be true. Even if we make mistakes, we must do this in order to learn and grow.

Shakti Gawain

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