Quotes About Intimacy

Statistically, you can take two people, give them the same quantity of God's Word, and the one with the most Christian friends will be the one who's most likely to apply it. So the real question we need to ask ourselves is this, "Are we intimately connected with other people in the body of Christ?" If not, it doesn't matter how many sermons or worship experiences you ingest. You have very low odds of actually changing.

When her mouth found mine I disassembled. Not exploded like a bomb or anything, but came apart. A few pieces at a time. They floated away, went into a kind of orbit. A splintering galaxy. An extravagant slow motion annihilation. The only center was her mouth, her hair. It was her. A reconstitution around the core of her.

Can you fall in love through a rifle scope?

I know now that I loved him more than anything on earth or off of it.

We made love again. This time it was me who asked. Lying there again, on the bed, this time with heat, almost an oven heat, coming through the screen, and sweat instead of tears, I wondered how simple we really are. That we can do the same things again and again and again and find them interesting, even fascinating and seek the repetition with a hunger as avid. How fishing was like that, and painting.

Isn't that strange? To be able to feel so much tenderness for a person, and I did, and powerful attraction, sometimes, and yet feel no love.

We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable.

Balancing concealment and exposure is one of the trickiest problems in personal relations and in social life at large.

All men lie. That's how they operate. if you want a longterm relationship with a man you've got to understand it's going to be with a liar. It's in their nature - it's genetic, it's a bloody Darwinian acquired characteristic for survival, OK? They tell you what they want you to hear.

The entire city was his hunting ground. In the summer months, dressed in a blazer and wearing his straw hat at a jaunty angle, he would regularly stroll along under the arches, and then along the pier. Next he would ride on the Volks Railway, where in the cramped intimacy of its hard seats he liked to talk to strangers, telling them this was the world's oldest still-running electric train, and boring them with facts about it.

Good sex is one-percent of the relationship. bad sex is 99%.

Love gives you eyes.

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”

Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.

If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her sonís daughter or her daughterís daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.

Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:

so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my motherís womb.

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.