In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
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.
That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.
You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see.
Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.
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).
One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
Intimacy is a difficult art.
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage. . . Tears inevitably follow transgression. Men, take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.
Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other.
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.