Quotes about Intimacy

Kiss me just once more before we get there

The people closest to you routinely catch the flak thrown off by the explosive stuff you normally work so hard to keep hidden.

Intimate relationships are not built on obedience. They are built on trust. Walking by faith, again, is simply living as if God is who he says he is and that he will do everything he has promised to do. As a person's confidence in God grows, he or she matures.

I tell the girls in our student ministry, "You don't really want sex. What you want is intimacy. You want to meet a guy, fall in love, and know you can trust him completely. You want somebody with whom you can share everything there is to know about you without fear of betrayal or rejection. You want to be fully known and to know him fully. Purity now paves the way to intimacy later.

If you've never been married or are under thirty, even if you've lived with someone, you underestimate the complexity of your sexuality and the long-term ramifications of your sexual conduct.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

Tree at my window, window tree,My sash is lowered when night comes on;But let there never be curtain drawnBetween you and me.

As we look at human relationships, what we see is that lovers don't want explanations, but presence. And

An authentic relationship means telling the truth about how we feel — and that's the kind of relationship God wants with us.

Christ does not say to me, "Be yourself." He says, "Be with me." BROTHER ROGER OF TAIZÉ

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. —G. K. Chesterton12