Quotes about Intimacy

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

Where there is no wine there is no love.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

To be true to God in the deepest way meant having such a relationship with him that one did not live legalistically by "rules" or "principles." One could never separate one's actions from one's relationship to God. It was a more demanding and more mature level of obedience.

God wants more than anything to let us know he is with us. He sees what we are going through and he cares. Furthermore, he is such a big God that he can afford to deal with us on an intimate level, to encourage us and to wink at us and to hold our hands when we need him to do that.

For Luther the Bible was not a book like Aristotle's Ethics or like a volume of Livy or Cicero. It was something entirely apart from every book in the world. It was the living Word of God and therefore could not be read like any other book. It was inspired by God, and when one read it, one must do so in such a way—with such closeness and intimacy—that one fully intended to feel and smell the breezes of heaven.

My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.