Quotes about Intimacy
The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
— Henry Cloud
Intimacy with God is the way to true fulfillment. How do you keep the Enemy from sitting at your table? You keep your eyes on Christ.
— Louie Giglio
It doesn't matter if you do important things. What matters is that you draw close to me.
— Louie Giglio
Father, I want to see Your face. Hear my cry and reveal Yourself to me as I make room for You to invade my life. I am desperate for more of You. I am here. I am knocking. Intersect my life today with a greater awareness of who You are. Please show me more of Your character and purpose as I set my heart on You. Amen.
— Louie Giglio
David took off Saul's armor. He pulled off the false cover. He walked out to battle as his real self. He was able to defeat the giant because he was confident in his intimacy with God.
— Louie Giglio
Puritan Thomas Gataker (1574—1654) said, "There is no society [relationship] more near, more entire, more needful, more kindly, more delightful, more comfortable, more constant, more continual, than the society of man and wife." By the grace of God, such friendship between husbands and wives is possible and practical and should be our priority.
— Joel Beeke
John, I'm not saying that if you keep My commandments, you prove to Me that you love Me," He said. "I already know whether you love Me or not! What I'm saying is if a man falls head over heels in love with Me, he will be the one enabled to keep My commandments!
— John Bevere
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
— John Maxwell
Isn't it strange how we must surrender being right in order to find what's right, how humility enables us to be authentic, vulnerable, trustworthy, and intimate with others? People are open to those who are open to them.
— John Maxwell
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
— Henry David Thoreau
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
— George Washington