Quotes about Intimacy

For though I tried to move his arm— unlock his bridegroom clasp—yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly, as though naught but death should part us twain.

your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God's

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.