Intimacy Quotes · Page 19

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.

— Horatius Bonar

“Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

— Michael Eric Dyson

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

— Dean Ornish

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t.…

— Hanif Kureishi

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

— Kevin Sessums

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from…

— Mark Hoppus

When you have a great intimacy coordinator on set - which Bridgerton' does - you eliminate all of the stress.

— Jonathan Bailey

“Sexual intimacy is a relationship, not just body parts coming together. The more comfortable you are with each other outside the bedroom;…

— Ngina Otiende

There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness,…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and…

— Colin Callender

“As women, our ability to multitask can be a blessing, but it becomes a huge liability when we take on too much…

— Ngina Otiende

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language…

— Virginia Woolf

The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how…

— Edan Lepucki

“Once you have recognized and admitted to yourself that there is a problem and have started to gain some understanding of the…

— Paldrom Collins

“the sweet juices of your mouth are like castles bathed in honey. i've never had it done so gently before. you have…

— Richard Brautigan

“All of the emotions that hit people at times like these, all of them, were coursing through us both like a secret…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

I make films that are very personal, and I always have. It's kind of the only thing that I think I have…

— Ira Sachs

The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not…

— Richard Rohr

One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to…

— Deena Metzger

My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though…

— Sufjan Stevens

Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy,…

— Mark Driscoll

We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure.…

— John Eldredge

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be…

— Hanif Kureishi

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

— Queen Victoria

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

— Martha Beck

Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.

— Justin Tranter

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

— Pope Francis

It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

— Florence Welch

“We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy.”

— Cristina García

“With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone…

— Larry Watson

“She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.”

— Eiji Yoshikawa

The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical…

— D. H. Lawrence

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

— Charles R. Swindoll

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

— Timothy Morton

I love the intimacy of TV. I love the fact that you don't necessarily have the pressure of an audience or anyone…

— Abi Morgan

“When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.”

— Anatole Broyard

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

— John Green