Quotes about Intimacy
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
— Margaret Mead
Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.
— Henri Nouwen
Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.
— Brian Tracy
But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
— Timothy Keller
The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
— Philip Yancey
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
— David Ogilvy
The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.
— CS Lewis
He that is jealous is not in love.
— St. Augustine
He that is not jealous is not in love.
— St. Augustine
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.
— George Muller
The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.
— Elie Wiesel
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory making out and sleeping around, we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.
— Elisabeth Elliot