Quotes about Intimacy
To make matters worse, seemingly every book I read by Christians on sex and marriage sounded unfair. Nearly every one said the husband had to work very hard to understand his wife, to relate to her.
— Mark Driscoll
Men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together'.
— Aristotle
She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.
— Henri Nouwen
I don't talk about my personal life in the press that's how I kept my wedding a secret.
— Kerry Washington
God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
— John Ortberg
we owe love to all people, but only to a proven friend are we to entrust "the secrets of the heart.
— John Ortberg
If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.
— John Piper
God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.
— John Piper
Are you able—theologically, personally, and resource-wise—to be harmoniously, sweetly, and deeply in love with Jesus together in marriage?
— John Piper
Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him.
— Ellen White
Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.
— Elton John