Quotes about Intimacy

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I will never be able to do or be everything you want, nor vice versa, but I'd like to think we can be the sort of people who will dare to tell each other who we really are. The alternative is silence and lies, which are the real enemies of love.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but Do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have for ever?

Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of far closer, more interesting bonds with anyone we do eventually locate. 

For many, the point of marriage isn't so much to be in love as to stop having to think of love.

Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.

Repression, a degree of restraint, and a little dedication to self-editing belong to love just as surely as a capacity for explicit confession.

We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.