Quotes about Intensity
Life is beautiful, so long as it is consuming you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is glorious. It is best to roar away, like a fire with a great draught, white-hot to the last bit.
— DH Lawrence
Then her eyes blazed naken in a kind of ecstasy, that frightened him.
— DH Lawrence
he can make every word he speaks draw blood
— Walt Whitman
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
— Mark Twain
each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. it merely intensifies it.
— Oscar Wilde
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
— Oscar Wilde
In particular, I had learned that intensity is crucial for any progress in spiritual perception and understanding. To dribble a few verses or chapters of scripture on oneself through the week, in church or out, will not reorder one's mind and spirit—just as one drop of water every five minutes will not get you a shower, no matter how long you keep it up. You need a lot of water at once and for a sufficiently long time. Similarly for the written Word.
— Dallas Willard
What I was seeking, with resolute determination, was to live more intensely my own life, as against what I knew would be the adverse judgment of the world. It was in the most real seasons that the Real Presence came, and I was aware that I was immersed in the infinite ocean of God.
— William James
True preaching is the sweating of blood. —DR. JOSEPH PARKER
— Leonard Ravenhill
When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.
— Francis Chan
Unless you read it quickly you will fail to see the unity of the story. Unless you read intensely you will fail to see the details.
— Mortimer Adler
Live with power and energy that undeniably transcends their natural capacities and with an intensity of commitment that far exceeds anything they have previously demonstrated in their lives
— George Barna