Quotes about Intensity

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.

I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

Feeling like God is far away, disinterested, or dead to you is part of our Bible and can't be brushed aside. And that feeling—no matter how intense it may be, and even offensive as it may seem—is never judged, shamed, or criticized by God. Worshipping other gods or acting unjustly toward others gets criticized about every three sentences, but not this honest talk of feeling abandoned by God.

Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”

So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.

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

His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.

He asked them, “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along?” They stood still, with sadness on their faces.