Quotes about Intimacy

Whatever our monument might be, we want it to be public, even if the public is one friend.

For now, what things have you done that you prefer to keep private? What things in your life do you insist on keeping secret? That's where we will find the shame that is attached to what we do.

You can't have a deeper relationship if you won't allow yourself to be known.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.

Tessa and I have grown up together. It's hard to explain our relationship because we've gone through so much together. It's so intense. It is so special. You can't really compare it and it's hard for people to understand it.

Marriage has given me the gift of compassion.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Anyone who enters into an intimate relationship with God can see God do exceptional things through his or her life.

3But You, O LORD, dknow me; You have seen me, And You have etested my heart toward You.

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.

It really works very well, but the trouble is that it feels so godly that much, if not most, religion is a belonging system more than a search for intimacy with God. Jesus was not into tribal religion, groupthink, and loyalty tests. Much of the institutional church is into them, however, and always has been. It works too well to call it into question. It holds us together and that feels like salvation, even if it is a very deteriorated form.

Allow yourself to be fully known, and you will know what you need to know.