Quotes About Intimacy

If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled.

The binary nature of monogamy-centrist thinking tends, we think, to cause problems: you're either the love of my life, or you're out of here.

A great many people do believe that to be single is to be somehow incomplete and that they need to find the other half. [...] We believe, on the other hand, that the fundamental sexual unit is one person. Adding more people to that unit may be intimate, fun and companionable, but does not complete anybody.

To be an ethical slut you need to have very good boundaries that are clear, strong, flexible, and, above all, conscious.

You don't understand,' I said. 'I need to be with her. With every fibre of my being I ache for her. I'm in love.' 'I do understand,' said Zoran. 'It was same for me with Mrs Zoran when I first meet her. But the feeling goes away after few hours.

What, then, is his appraisal of your worth? He was willing to pay the price of his own Son's death on an executioner's cross to pay for your sin so you might have an intimate relationship with him. That's the value God places on you. If you truly see how precious and valuable a treasure you and your sexuality are to him, it will transform the way you allow others to treat you—"significant others" included.

First, only God, through our relationship with Christ, can ever completely satisfy our intimacy needs for being unconditionally known and accepted. The intimate lovemaking between a man and a woman (as good and complete as that may feel) is only a taste of our ultimate love relationship with God.

Religion is the archrival of intimate spirituality…Religion, a tiresome system of manmade dos and don'ts, woulds and shoulds – impotent to change human lives but tragically capable of devastating them – is what is left after a true love for God has drained away. Religion is the shell that is left after the real thing has disappeared.

A man's religion and love life were nobody else's concern so long as neither of them gouged out some innocent bystander's eyes.

In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.

Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

Eroticize intelligence.

Good to know. Because proposing while we're both naked is pretty pathetic. Bad form.

No one wants to share their man, after all," continued Knight calmly when Jenna's scream subsided. "Even if the person they're sharing with is themselves. So now that he's all yours, Jenna, how about it?

Who knew that sex was so much better when the relationship had nothing to do with sex? And

Perhaps this was one of the reasons for her reticence. She knew that he was keeping a huge part of his life from her.

but with a man whose entire body was paralyzed. Well, all except for his penis, which enabled them to have three children, although the thought picture of how this was accomplished wasn't something on which she liked to dwell.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

When people believe in Christ, they become identified with one another in an intimate association and incur both the benefits and responsibilities of that communion. Philemon is fundamentally all about those responsibilities, as Paul, Onesimus, and Philemon, bound together in faith, are forced by circumstances to think through the radical implications of their koinnia.

Of course, marriage in one sense changes who you are in certain ways, but it also simply amplifies what you are. Many people think that when they got married, they turned into selfish people. What actually happened is they plugged the guitar into the amp and turned it up to eleven, and the selfish tune they had been playing the whole time suddenly became audible.

Spurgeon once said, "Faults are thick where love is thin.

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a giving to, not a falling for; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.

We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like were together because were scared to see each other with somebody else.