Quotes about Intensity

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

I'm going back to Mike." I could feel her crying as I held her close. "He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

I want to know what passion is, she heard him saying. I want to feel something strongly.

Love is a mode of knowledge, and when the love is sufficiently disinterested and sufficiently intense, the knowledge becomes unitive knowledge and so takes on the quality of infallibility.

Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

God will manifest himself in direct proportion to our passion for him.