Quotes About Intimacy

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.

In the spacious love of God, our souls can lie down and rest. This love from him is not something we must struggle for, earn, or fear to lose. It is bestowed. He has bestowed it upon us. He has chosen us. And nothing can separate us from his love. Not even we, ourselves. We are made for such a love. Our hearts yearn to be loved intimately, personally, and yes, romantically. We are created to be the object of desire and affection of one who is totally and completely in love with us. And we are.

Prayer is such an intimate act, a place of vulnerability. It is, hopefully, when we are our least guarded, our most honest selves. And this is good, of course; this is as it ought to be. When we come to God, we certainly want to come as honestly and openly as we can; we want to be our truest selves before him. Prayer lets us be in a place of need.

the great divide lies between men as lovers and men as consumers. Does he seek her out, long for her, because really he yearns for her to meet some need in his life—a need for validation (she makes him feel like a man), or mercy, or simply sexual gratification? That man is a Consumer, as my friend Craig calls him. The lover, on the other hand, wants to fight for her—he wants to protect her, make her life better, wants to fill her heart in every way he can.

The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships.

The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.

I realize that many dear followers of Christ have been taught that God only speaks to his sons and daughters through the Bible. The irony of that theology is this: that's not what the Bible teaches! The Scriptures are filled with stories of God speaking to his people—intimately, personally. Adam

God wants to live this life together with you, to share in your days and decisions, your desires and disappointments. He wants intimacy with you in the midst of the madness and the mundane, the meetings and the memos, the laundry and the lists, the carpools and conversations and projects and pain. He wants to pour his love into your heart and he longs to have you pour yours into his.

Reading the prophets, says Yancey, is like hearing a lovers' quarrel through the apartment wall.

First off, we must be confident that God wants to give us more of himself.

And he wants you to be utterly yourself, with him.

If I've lost the capacity for, and the enjoyment of relationship, I know things are deeply off in my soul.

Sex can be such a stark barometer for a marriage.

Then I ask for more of God: Jesus—I need more of you; fill me with more of you, God. Restore our union; fill me with your life.

many relationships fail for the insistence of treating others as problems to be solved, rather than as hearts to be known and loved.

Intimacy with God is the purpose of our lives. It's why God created us.

I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound.

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

Between skin and skin there is only light. And there was my poetry.

I want to tell you what's really happened. Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened, come and make love to me. And we did make love; not sex, but love; though sex would have been so much wiser.

She was a mirror that did not lie; whose interest in me was real; whose love was real.