Quotes About Intimacy

I have married a stranger...only you become more familiar and yet more strange with every minute I spend in your company

Lucern felt himself "She called my erections wonderful?" Entienne just gaped, then raised a fist to knock on his brother's forehead as if it were a door "Hello! Earth calling Luc! She thinks it's rigor mortis.

Relationships often die not because of conversations that were had but rather conversations that were needed but never had.

Hold fast to Jesus and remember: This breaking of you will be the making of you. A new you. A stronger you. Strengthened not with the pride of perfection but with the sweet grace of one who knows an intimate closeness with her Lord.

The emptiness in your heart because that person you love doesn't seek to really understand you, rarely cheers you on, and doesn't seem to want to connect intimately with you.

Have you ever dared to ask this? Have you ever dared to say to God, Lord, whatever Your will for my life is, that is what I want? Believing God is not for the weak at heart. It's only for those who want to discover the rich blessings of walking close enough to God to hear the constant drumming of His heartbeat.

Though I've been saved for a long time, I want to recapture the essence of this "no other" reality.

We must spend time with God, letting His truths become part of who we are and how we live.

When we give relational access to us, it should never lead to "less safety, less sanity, or less strengthening for the individuals in the relationship.

Proximity and activity don't always equal connectivity.

Look for Me. Long for Me. Experience unbroken companionship with Me.

God can't be reduced to a checklist.

growing closer to God has a whole lot less to do with any action we might take and a whole lot more to do with positioning our hearts toward His.

Isn't it interesting that Jesus seemed to speak most intimately to people who were lonely?

When a man is physically present but emotionally absent, a girl's heart can feel quite hollow and helpless.

And the ties that truly bind me to Him and the truth of who I am in Him are given to me in those quiet moments where I say, "I'm Yours, God.

That's how God created us -- with a longing to be filled. It's a longing God instilled to draw us into deep intimacy with Him.

I have allowed myself to believe that to be stripped of all the props and pretensions and accolades and approvals is to be stripped of the best parts of me. When in reality what's best about me comes to the forefront when I'm closest to the way God created me, naked and unashamed. To stand naked and unashamed is the way of the garden life.

If we aren't walking in wisdom, intimacy, and understanding with our Lord, we are walking in folly. And folly's ways lead to death.

He who has loved often ... has loved never.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs.

One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.