Quotes About Intimacy

Sex, my darling, is often the least important part of a passion. You'll learn that when you get older. - Maria Luisa (Tushi) Strauss

Real people have a way of banging against the doors you've closed; they know your name, your phone number. They live with you.

When a woman loves a man, they have gone to swim naked in the stream on a glorious July day with the sound of the waterfall like a chuckle of water rushing over smooth rocks, and there is nothing alien in the universe…

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we're wrong. Someone we trust.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

Proximity, I have learned, is often as effective as violence.

It's dark now. But they feel each others' breath. And they know all they need to know. They kiss. And they feel each others' tears on their cheeks. And if there had been anybody left to see them, then they would look like normal lovers, caressing each others' faces, bodies close together, eyes closed, oblivious to the world around them. Because that is how life goes on. Like that.

God is closer to us than water is to a fish.

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.

God is seeking those who hear His call to a life of worship. Those who heed are those who will walk in His presence. They will know Him intimately as He will manifest Himself to them.

People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.

Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

As close as you are to God, so close is God to you.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.