love's intensity Quotes

You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.

There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.