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Deepen your existing spiritual commitment. -- Dan Buettner
Deepen your faith in yourself.Nothing will be ableTo frighten or weaken you. -- Sri Chinmoy
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures. -- Pope John Paul II
The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths. -- Wallace Stevens
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. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life. -- Pope John Paul II
Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them. -- Willie Stargell
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. -- Francis Bacon
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness. -- Marianne Williamson
It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges. -- Yoshihiko Noda
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness. -- Brian Reynolds
Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son. -- Charles Stanley
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. -- Li Peng
Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government. -- Peter DeFazio
A shift toward access and service would deepen the big-box retailer's relationship to customers and win their loyalty. A service focus would bring more rewarding, frequent, and lasting contact with grateful customers. -- Lisa Gansky
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. -- Andrew Solomon
Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world - monarchies, kingdoms, large powers - we want to respect all differences and have our relationships based on mutual respect. -- Hugo Chavez
No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream. -- Robin S. Sharma
As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past. -- Timothy Geithner
There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek. -- John R. Allen
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different. -- Amy Waldman
Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death. -- Regina Brett
Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state. -- Umberto Eco
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. -- Herbert A. Simon
That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say. -- Robert Jay Lifton
I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can just keep my mouth shut for five minutes a student will say it. So for me a lot of teaching is about keeping my mouth shut. -- Greil Marcus
What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work. -- Kenneth R. Miller
I embrace treats, but I'm also very wary of treats. Treats help us feel energized, appreciated, and enthusiastic - but very often, the things we choose as 'treats' aren't good for us. The pleasure lasts a minute, but then feelings of guilt, loss of control, and other negative consequences just deepen the lousiness of the day. -- Gretchen Rubin
Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a series of questions. 'Will this broaden or deepen my relationships?' 'Will this contribute to an atmosphere of growth in my life?' 'Is this a way to 'Be Gretchen?' and 'Will this help connect me to my past?' -- Gretchen Rubin
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. -- Ann Voskamp
You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already. -- Charles Dickens
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen. -- Margaret Mead
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. -- Augustine Birrell
Let's not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia. -- Bill Crawford
You can't deepen the European Union against the wishes of the European countries. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it. -- Vance Havner
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform. -- bell hooks
The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them. -- Jerry Uelsmann
What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now. -- Karan Bajaj
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant. -- Robin Lee
This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love. -- Henri Nouwen
Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something. -- Philip Slater
But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction. -- Rufus Wainwright
If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life. -- John Claypool
If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God. -- Marianne Williamson
Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom. -- Rajneesh
When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community. -- Alex Grey
The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience. -- Mark Galli
See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth. -- Susan L. Taylor
If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity. -- Julia Cameron
In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body. -- C. J. Mahaney
To deepen my connection with what is real, lasting + true; I close my eyes + see through the lens of my heart. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell! -- Haruki Murakami
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. -- Anne Rice
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. -- Anne Lamott
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness. -- Brian Reynolds
Mel Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination. -- Jan Phillips
The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own. -- Parker J. Palmer
This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen. -- P. C. Cast
Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go. -- Oriah Dreamer
Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go. -- Oriah Dreamer
Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living. -- R. C. Sproul
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart. -- Kate DiCamillo
Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons. -- Nora Roberts
Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
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. -- Barack Obama
We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals. -- Barack Obama
We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade. -- William J. Clinton
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. -- Vimala Thakar
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. -- Dana Spiotta
I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or deepen another woman's reproductive vulnerability. -- Rickie Solinger
To feel is to communicate with your Spirit-with God. Feeling is God's mirror; intuition is God's telephone. To seek your truth is to deepen your connection to Spirit. -- Kenny Loggins
If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace. -- Gerald Jampolsky
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. -- Walter Kaufmann
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. -- George Eliot
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. -- Thomas Keating
There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world. -- Robert Gilpin
Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life. -- James Hillman
The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together. -- M. Russell Ballard
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. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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. -- Michelle Gielan
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. -- Lilian Katz
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. -- Paul Newman
In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself. -- Rumer Godden
Part of our goal, in the episodes moving forward, is to deepen and dimensionalize every other character, to get into their relationships with each other, expand that stuff and really sink our teeth in. -- Josh Gad
With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres. -- Henry Giroux
If we truly believe that every girl in every corner of the globe is worthy of an education as our own daughters and granddaughters are, then we need to deepen our commitment to these efforts -- Michelle Obama
Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately leadership is about creating new realities. -- Joseph Jaworski

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