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• Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith

  Bob Proctor

  Persistence, Lifetime, Proportion

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• Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for His glory. Let us love Him with all our hearts, and then diligent labor, and consistent living will be sure to follow.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Glory

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• There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se...but for me, to go to sea is to get a glimpse of the face of God. At sea I am reminded of my insignificance-of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.

  Steven Callahan

  Religious, Men, Sea

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• To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has to launch alone. You cannot impose the inquiry of truth in the heart of your partner. You cannot compel your partner to have the same intensity or the same depth of inquiry. So irrespective of where you are, the voyage has to be launched upon alone. Taking the inward journey and arriving at silence, is a voyage in solitude.

  Vimala Thakar

  Heart, Journey, Discovery

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• Love is the air that I breathe, like oxygen. When I lack it, I feel atrophied, asphyxiated. When I have it, I feel I am growing. And so this growth is linked to others, or to a collective other. If I realize that I do not love you, my faith diminishes, and I breathe less and less of the oxygen of life. When I feel linked to you, in communion with you, there is a current of love that passes between us, and the intensity can multiply. And the more this love grows, the more the faith becomes luminous, the more I feel linked to the collective other. I am speaking of God.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Love, Air, Oxygen

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• Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

  Ricky Williams

  Greatness, Midst, Willingness

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• Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

  Paul Tournier

  Tasks, Christ, Communion

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• Writing is a deeply immersive experience.  When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice.  I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.

  Monica Ali

  Writing, Escaping, Boredom

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• The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.

  Robert Monroe

  Depth, Relation, Direct

  Robert Monroe (2014). “Far Journeys”, p.318, Harmony

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• It is impossible for any single medium to fully capture the emotion and intensity of war. The Battlefield 3: The Russian novel is one window into the experience, and the game is another. They complement each other perfectly.

  Andy McNab

  War, Games, Impossible

  " Creators strive for emotion in making 'Battlefield 3'" by Larry Frum, www.cnn.com. August 2, 2011.

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• My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and -- of course -- heart. This is an extraordinary debut by a striking new voice in YA fiction that left me in awe and moved beyond measure. Not to be missed.

  Nova Ren Suma

  Honesty, Heart, Voice

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• Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.

  Esther Perel

  Passion, People, Realist

  Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.

  Rodney Stark

  Long, Triumph, Arrogant

  "For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery". Book by Rodney Stark, August 29, 2004.

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• I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hurt, Believe, Feelings

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• When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory.

  Joel Osteen

  Victory, Road To Success, Difficult

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2012

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• The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Milton, Characteristics

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• If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Trying, Flags, Maps

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• The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.

  Walt Mueller

  Kids, Reality, Age

  Walt Mueller (1999). “Understanding Today's Youth Culture”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.

  Angela Thirkell

  Love, Pain, Differences

  Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.

  Lauryn Hill

  Suicide, Heart, Suicidal

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• A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Preparation, Different

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• Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

  Renzo Piano

  Light, Giving, Quality

  Renzo Piano (1997). “Logbook”

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• I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.

  Branch Warren

  Bodybuilding, Average, Training

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• If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.

  Frank Knight

  Struggle, Mean, Revolution

  Frank Hyneman Knight, Hubert Bonner (1947). “Freedom and reform: essays in economics and social philosophy”

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• Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Air, Sound, Density

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