Shall love be blamed for want of faith?
Interpretation
The quote questions whether love should be criticized for lacking faith or trust.
In this quote, Alfred Lord Tennyson prompts reflection on the interplay between love and faith. He suggests that love may not always be rooted in trust or certainty, asking if it is fair to hold love accountable for this perceived deficiency. This speaks to the complexities of love, which can be inherently vulnerable and uncertain, and challenges the notion that love must be unwavering or entirely secure to be valid or meaningful.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the complexities of romantic relationships.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
Earth is dry to the centre,_x000D_ But spring, a new comer,_x000D_ A spring rich and strange,_x000D_ Shall make the winds blow_x000D_ Round and round,_x000D_ Thro' and thro',_x000D_ Here and there,_x000D_ Till the air_x000D_ And the ground_x000D_ Shall be fill'd with life anew.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
Were kisses all the joys in bed, _x000D_ One woman would another wed.
Love is our response to our highest values.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly _x000D_ themselves.
People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Mt 13:44)(Jn 15:8).
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