Quotes About Intensity

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

Now let me burn out for God.

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Still...you turn me on

No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.

I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of "gris". But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.

Anyone can have a relationship but if you're dating a woman who's so crazy in bed that if you aren't wearing your Kevlar one night you might never see daylight again... that's exciting.

She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice, a little crazy, but it's nice. And when she gets mad, you best leave her alone, cause she'll rage like a river then she'll beg you to forgive her.

Los mejores carecen de toda convicción, En tanto que los peores Están llenos de apasionada intensidad.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

For violent fires soon burn out themselves;Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.

Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,For 'tis of aspics' tongues!

Could I come near your beauty with my nailsI'd set my ten commandments in your face.

I have given suck, and knowHow tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:I would, while it was smiling in my face,Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as youHave done to this.