Quotes about Intimacy
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
— Elisabeth Elliot
What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.
— Elizabeth George
Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro' My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is no more precious gift entrusted to a man than the treasure of his wife.
— Alistair Begg
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
— Alphonsus Liguori
I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
— Joyce Meyer
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
— Thomas Jefferson
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I don't like talking to celebrities.
— Lady Gaga
Nichelle staring at Jack.
— Richard Paul Evans
It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.
— Richard Paul Evans
The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.
— Fr. Richard Rohr