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
My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.
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