Quotes about Closeness

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

God trusts most those who know Him best, and those who know Him best are those who have spent the most time with Him.

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

Those closest to us have first claim to our acts of love.

People are always far away.

There's a couple—she is nestled up into his chest, eyes closed, like she's trying to top off an interrupted night's sleep.

What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

True friendship is rare on earth. It means identifying with someone in thought, heart, and spirit. The whole experience of life is designed to enable us to enter into this closest relationship with Jesus Christ.

Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors.

One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.