Christian love Quote by Joshua Harris Download Open image “The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment.” — Joshua Harris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christian love Commitment Godly Intimacy Joy Rewards Romance
“And I think that's the story of our generation's pursuit of fulfillment in relationships. We wished for intimacy without obligation. We wished for sex… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
Intimacy is about acceptance - without acceptance intimacy becomes either an illusion or an exercise in futility and frustration. — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The desire of intimacy is the desire to share one's innermost self with another” — Dan McAdams Copy Share Image
Passion can never purchase what true love desires: true intimacy, self-giving, and commitment — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True intimacy is the opening of one soul to another. No gift on earth could compare with it, for it touches us more profoundly… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says,… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“I especially loved the Old Testament. Even as a kid I had a sense of it being slightly illicit. As though someone had slipped… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
We can each rest in the knowledge that God is sovereign over our life's situation. No matter where we are today or what mistakes… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking. — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“The face that Moses had begged to see—was forbidden to see—was slapped bloody (Exodus 33:19–20). The thorns that God had sent to curse the… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by a willingness to accept the bad with the good, do… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“We can't change by fancy methods. We can't change by mere willpower. But God's Spirit working in us can help us to "will and… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Godly fear is loving and trusting in Him. As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And "perfect love casteth out… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires.… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Why should we believe in God? We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They… — Gerald Burton Winrod Copy Share Image
As believers in Christ, we are part of Him-God the Father decided before the foundation of the world that anyone who loved Christ would… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
