Intimacy Quotes
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Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
— Gloria Steinem
All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.
— Matthew Kelly
There is something intimate about playing a duet. It's touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh.
— Courtney M. Privett
When you find real love - protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift.
— Bryant McGill
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
— Michael Eric Dyson
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
— Robert Sternberg
No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith. Elie Wiesel
— John Ortberg
Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy.
— Michel Faber
Among austere men intimacy involves shame
and is something precious. — Friedrich Nietzsche
and is something precious. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The spirit of divinity is the spirit of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The intimacy bridge? Girl, he sounds like a total loser. Dump him. Now. Before he brings up the intimacy bridge again.
— Jill Shalvis
When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.
— Anatole Broyard
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
— Moliere
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.
— Harriet Lerner
Marriage is sacred intimacy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.
— Jean Edward Smith
I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.
— Alanis Morissette
The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.
— Jon Foreman
I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
— Jim Goldberg
Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it.
— Thomas Moore
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
— Joyce Brothers
Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.
— Gary Rohrmayer
A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
— Oswald Chambers
My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.
— Ethlie Ann Vare
We must not confuse conformity to religious expectation and culture to an actual growth in intimacy with our Lord and maturity of our faith.
— Alisa Hope Wagner
The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
— Marianne Williamson
He understood very well that it was just because of this intimacy that their marriage had not survived.
— Harry Mulisch
One of the deepest feminine desires in intimacy is precisely not to have to always figure it out for her man and guide him.
— David Deida
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
— Errol Morris
The closer he was the less confident I was.
— Shannon A. Thompson
All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.
— Donald Miller
Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy," he said.
— Melissa Bank
The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.
— David Platt
Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.
— John O'Donohue
The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.
— John Piper
Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.
— Marty Becker
Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.
— Andrew Miller
Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.
— Junot Diaz
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself.
— Toni Morrison
Eye contact can be used either as a means of seeking intimacy or as an attempt to intimidate.
— Glen Wilson
The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.
— Montserrat Caballe
When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy.
— Sharon Salzberg
Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.
— Chris Matthews
On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plenitude, and distance becomes intimacy.
— John O'Donohue
My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.
— Shakti Gawain
...you can't be intimate unless you're sensitive...
— John Geddes
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads.
— Marty Rubin
A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.
— Jane Hirshfield
Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.
— Ellen Lupton
You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Cinema's characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
— Satyajit Ray
Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
Soaking is also positioning yourself for an encounter with God, to be with Him. You do the positioning, He does the encounter.
— Linda Boone
Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.
— Arthur Aron
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
— Dallas Willard
True intimacy comes from honesty, not the illusion of sweetness.
— Gerald C. Wood
Intimacy should not be given casually; there should be a price. And it shouldn't be negotiable.
— Mensah Oteh
Private worship excites us for public worship.
— Matt Chandler
A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.
— Martha Stout
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
— James Dickey
Intimacy wasn't sex, she realized. It was knowing someone.
— Sarah Morgan
I watched him with wonder like the stars watch the moon, falling in love with every crescent, dark side, and dream.
— Piper Payne
Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.
— Mark Rothko
They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy
— Alice Munro
A good pickpocket isn't afraid of intimacy.
— Martyn V. Halm
A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.
— Horatius Bonar
Put work into your dreams.
— Lesley D. Nurse
Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.
— Scott Aukerman
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
— Alain De Botton
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon