Quotes about Intensity

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

That is the secret of poetry. We burn in the woman we adore, we burn in the thought we espouse, we burn in the landscape that moves us

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

He dragged her under him and made love to her with the steadiness and the intensity of a man about to leave for Dayton.

Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to weep.

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

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.

15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

The hotter the furnace the finer the gold.

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.

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.

It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants.