Top 204 Deepen Quotes & Sayings

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

Brazil must resume and deepen Latin American integration.

Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body.

We have very strong roots in Italy and we are committed to deepen these roots even more.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.

Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living.

I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.

We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.

You can't deepen the European Union against the wishes of the European countries.

Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.

I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks" or strategies for working with audio files, and then discovered that the same tricks could be applied to video files, or really, any type of data. Previously I made many different kinds of music. I did some work as a composer of film scores. In that role, my task was to create audio to match and deepen the visual. In my work now, the role is often reversed: I have to create images to match and deepen the audio.

Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.

To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.

When children are truly involved in the scientific process they gain understanding, knowledge, and life skills. They deepen their awareness of what's going on around them and how others contribute to their well-being.

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.

This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.

No stuffing is complete without chopped onion and celery - they're the building blocks. If you want to deepen the flavor, consider adding leeks, sage, and/or hardy greens.

Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

Deepen and broaden your awareness of yourself and all the blessings will flow. You need not seek anything, all will come to you most naturally and effortlessly.

Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.

What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.

As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness.

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.

Following celebrities or people you don't regularly see in person often doesn't add to our happiness. The best use of social media is to deepen existing close relationships or create new ones.

Mel Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination.

One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

My Jewishness and queerness are very interwoven, and, although they sometimes conflict culturally, intellectually and spiritually they deepen one another for me.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

Good writing shouldn't be wrapped in cellophane. It should be open to the elements and full of maggots and it should be left to grow and deepen and fester.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you're not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.

I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.

My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.

When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.

It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

The Kind Foundation was created to scale our social impact and be able to deepen our focus on fostering empathy and developing kinder communities.

See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.

That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.