Intimacy Quotes - Page 14

• The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Real, Two, People

  Jonathan Carroll (2014). “Bathing the Lion”, p.95, St. Martin's Press

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• There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

  Thomas Merton

  Soul, Solitude, Know How

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.175, Shambhala Publications

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

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Joy, Unbearable, Has Beens

  J. Oswald Sanders (2015). “Enjoying Intimacy with God”, p.64, Discovery House

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• Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Self, Self Will

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.18, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Oneness, Fellowship, Depth

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.32, Discovery House

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• Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

  Pope Francis

  Breathing, Giving, Praise

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• The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Taken, Men, Effort

  "Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver. p. 26, 1948.

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• Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

  Tom Robbins

  Sugar, Life Is, Still Life With Woodpecker

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• Our world does not need to hear more people talk about God or even about Jesus if those people do not have a lifestyle that reinforces every word they utter. The interesting thing is that the closer we walk in intimacy with God, the less we have to say. Our very lives become a bold and beautiful testimony to the purity, the freedom, and the beauty of the Lord Jesus.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Beautiful, Jesus, Our World

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• Prayer is a walk with God....We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it, you'll never have that intimacy of ministering to the Lord and worshiping Him with a group that you'll have in your own individual life.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Prayer, Groups, Lord

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• It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire. We also have resistance to the space and independence we need. So we go back and forth, not letting ourselves have one or the other. It all boils down to this: Are you willing to have your relationships be a pathway to fully revealing yourself and your potential? If you answer is Yes, real intimacy can be yours on a daily basis.

  Gay Hendricks

  Real, Space, Independence

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• I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.

  Andy Stanley

  Believe, Preparation, Groups

  Andy Stanley, Bill Willits (2009). “Creating Community: Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture”, p.32, Multnomah

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• It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Discipline, Grows

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• Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

  Rollo May

  Risk, Self Actualization, Actualization

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.

  Warsan Shire

  Color, Voice, Sound

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• Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Kindness, Acceptance

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• "Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us on the one truly essential issue, a premiss and condition for feeding his sheep, his lambs, his Church. May every ministry be based on this intimacy with the Lord; living from him is the measure of our ecclesial service which is expressed in the readiness to obey, to humble ourselves, as we heard in the Letter to the Philippians, and for the total gift of self.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Humble, Sheep

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• Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.

  Francis Chan

  Communication, Refusal, Dues

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.213, David C Cook

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• To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

  Richard Rohr

  Heaven, Promise, Degrees

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• Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.

  Ellen Lupton

  Hard Times, Differences, Letters

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students”, p.104, Chronicle Books

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• We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world from a spirituality of the divine as revealed in words to a spirituality of the divine as revealed in the visible world about us.

  Thomas Berry

  Moving, Needs, World

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• That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Spiritual, And Love, Losing

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• I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.

  Claudia Rankine

  Race, Investigating

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• Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

  Cameron Diaz

  Understanding, Who You Are

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• The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.

  Lee Gutkind

  Hard Work, Reality, Creative

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