Quotes About Intimacy

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer

He prayeth best who loveth best.

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

If you ever feel distant, never mistake who has drifted away. Prayer will close this gap.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

Look at Him while He is looking at you.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

Love and prayer are intimately related.

Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.