Quotes about Intimacy

When my hope is in my ability to rule the day, my spouse becomes a constant threat rather than an intimate companion.

All of God's rules are an outgrowth, an expression of, or an application of the thing for which we were made—relationship with him.

The reconciliation of a marriage must be a lifestyle, not just the response you have when things go bad. Consider

We were designed to be social beings, to live in vertical community with God and horizontal community with others.

A good relationship is a good relationship because the people in the relationship never quit working on the relationship.

No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.

Our experiences of God matter—those sacred moments that defy the very rational capabilities we are so keen to rely on.

Paul doesn't call followers of Jesus "Christians." He calls them "in Christ." That isn't the easiest thing to understand, let alone explain, but it suggests an intimacy with Jesus that defies words. That intimacy also includes—somehow—suffering.

Being "in" with God is about much more than the thoughts we keep in our heads, the belief systems we hold on to, the doctrines we recite, or the statements of faith we adhere to, no matter how fervently and genuinely we do so, and how important they may be.

Rather than providing us with information to be downloaded, the Bible holds out for us an invitation to join an ancient, well-traveled, and sacred quest to know God, the world we live in, and our place in it. Not abstractly, but intimately and experientially.

And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.