Quotes about Intimacy

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

Perhaps the most shockingly transcendent thing about the God we worship is that He is pleased to stoop down to us, to draw near, to know us, love us, walk with us, and call us all by name.

We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

God is the Audience of One. There are no secrets from Him.

It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him." —J. Oswald Sanders

Don't have your first talk about sex with your pregnant fifteen-year-old. Be positive. Talk about how good sex can be inside marriage. Don't be ashamed to talk about what God wasn't ashamed to create.

Become a man or woman of prayer...Let your heart and mind be kept close to the principal calling of your life, which is to hunger and thirst after God and His righteousness...Let the thoughts and intents of your heart be shaped and guided by time spent in His presence.

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without the emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

sexuality is sacred, and using it for amusement brings diminishing returns.