Oh, trebly blest the
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband’s breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid! Euripides
Ardor
Idealists foolish enough to
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. Emma Goldman
If he loved with
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. Emily Bronte
Tolerance cannot seduce the
Tolerance cannot seduce the young. Emile M. Cioran
Tolerance – the function
Tolerance – the function of an extinguished ardor – tolerance cannot seduce the young. Emile M. Cioran
Consider love: is there
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime…but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention … Read more
The ministry of prayer,
The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness. Edward McKendree Bounds
In the ardor of
In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start. Friedrich Schiller
Moderation cannot have the
Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That infinite and indescribable
That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more … Read more