Quotes about Intensity

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.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.

When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?

Then the door opened and she came into the room - and it was as though everything in it suddenly blurred before his eyes. He had not remembered how beautiful she was, and he felt his face grow pale and his voice diminish to a poor sigh in his throat.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

The person who lives in the ethical sphere lives intentionally, intensively. Such a person possesses character and conviction, and is thus willing to sacrifice himself for something greater than oneself.

By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion gains in scope what is loses in intensity .

But can you measure someone's love? I want to know. You think you can measure love? She's kind not to laugh at me...No scale would be strong enough, she tells me. It would break to pieces under the weight.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

God does not want us distracted. He does not want our loyalties to be divided. Our allegiances are to be His alone. He loves us that intensely.