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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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• If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try to carry on with You each day is comic-what could be more comic than a human addressing the Ground of Being as an intimate? It's a kind of blasphemy that I dare because you have called for it, and that is pretty humorous, too.

  Andrew Greeley

  Laughter, Humorous, Trying

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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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• I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

  Luke Ford

  Faults

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• I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  People, Finals, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Thinking, Produce

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only distract and alienate certain audiences, it would limit who has access to the film, and that's something I think a lot about with this story.

  Travis Mathews

  Honesty, Character, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Plies, Vacuity

  "The Temptation to Exist". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1956.

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• The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).

  Anita Roddick

  Communication, Organization, Growth

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• I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

  Kevin Sessums

  Things In Life, Aberration, Done

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Thinking, Missing, Incredibles

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. August 12, 2011.

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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 look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in - even though they might be of a different time - have a sense of real intimacy with larger forces at work, where there's some kind of social injustice and inequity happening that needs to be conquered or addressed. I find historically that's the formula for a lot of successful operas.

  Jake Heggie

  Real, Successful, Emotional

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

  Donald Miller

  Lying, Two, People

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.152, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Loss, Men, Evil

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.304, Discovery House

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• When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience's mind week after week.

  Howard Gordon

  Character, Tv Shows, Profound

  Source: deadline.com

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• Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

  Beth Moore

  Praise, Compulsory, True Intimacy

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• We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely

  "Are We Plugged-In, Connected, But Alone?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 26, 2013.

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• Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species.

  Dean Ornish

  Country, Healing, Community

  Dean Ornish (1998). “Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy”

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• I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes it's when you fall in love with someone and sometimes it's when someone saves your life.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.

  William James

  Mean, Views, Differences

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