Quotes about Intimacy

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

Everyone knows me and my wife's story. We didn't have sex until we got married.

I still don't like going to bed alone.

But marriage is marriage, you know. Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn't that. That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, its off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you're not married.

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

Perhaps the most shockingly transcendent thing about the God we worship is that He is pleased to stoop down to us, to draw near, to know us, love us, walk with us, and call us all by name.

We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

I want to wait to have sex until I'm married.

The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

I'm a real romantic, big time.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.