Intimate Relationship Quotes

#1. All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.

Charles Stanley

#2. Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

Byron Katie

#3. We've got to have a deep, intimate relationship with the Father if we're going to lead like Jesus.

Henry Blackaby

#4. Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.

James MacDonald

#5. For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

Nick Rahall

#6. I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

Gina Barreca

#7. Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#8. People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Joyce Meyer

#9. We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God.

Stefan Emunds

#10. An intimate relationship must be developed over time, whether it's with God or anyone else.

Andrew Wommack

#11. Choose a single, sacred word or phrase that captures something of the flavor of your intimate relationship with God. A word such as Jesus, Abba, Peace, God or a phrase such as "Abba, I belong to you." ... Without moving your lips, repeat the sacred word inwardly, slowly, and often.

Brennan Manning

#12. It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground ... A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."

Rudolf Steiner

#13. Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

Amy Dickinson

#14. You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.

T.D. Jakes

#15. It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

#16. Good boundaries, created by the use of good intimacy skills, keep a committed or intimate relationship lightly balanced between the needs of the individual and the needs of the relationship.

Anne Katherine

#17. The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love
and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.

David Deida

#18. Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

Paul Krassner

#19. THE MOST INTIMATE relationship we'll ever have is with our own body. It's the headquarters of our fears and anxieties. It's also the cause of many of them. Which is why we can never really be fearless until we stop judging our looks and accept them. I've

Arianna Huffington

#20. Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.

Euell Gibbons

#21. You cannot be in a close and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and remain so tormented.

Lisa Heaton

#22. If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.

Jason Calacanis

#23. People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

Gary Chapman

#24. An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

Harriet Lerner

#25. It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

Antoine D'Agata

#26. Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

#27. For inside him there are spirits, or at least little genii, which have seen to it that for a collector - and I mean a real collector, a collector as he ought to be - ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Walter Benjamin

#28. How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

Jo Brand

#29. To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

Sally Potter

#30. My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#31. Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

Nancy Mitford

#32. When we learn how to be in an intimate relationship without abandoning our sense of self, when we learn how to be kind without being self-sacrificing, when we learn how to cooperate with others without betraying our standards and convictions, we are practicing self-assertiveness.

Nathaniel Branden

#33. Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife

Howard W. Hunter

#34. In very rare cases, people will be self-satisfied and content within themselves. More often than not the very same people who choose to live alone are simply in denial after a painful experience or the failure in an intimate relationship.

Nityananda Das

#35. People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

Jennifer Connelly

#36. I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady ...

Femi Fani-Kayode

#37. Having your own store is one of the most immediate ways to connect with the customer, to really get to know her and develop a more intimate relationship.

Reed Krakoff

#38. The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.

Deepak Chopra

#39. O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than ... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. No t that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.

Walter Benjamin

#40. This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#41. Anyone who enters into an intimate relationship with God can see God do exceptional things through his or her life. The outcome does not depend upon a person being unusually gifted, educated, or wealthy. The key is the indwelling presence of God doing unusual things

Henry T. Blackaby

#42. I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.

Susanne Bier

#43. Every extramarital intimate relationship has a spiritual resonance, the consequences of which can be very severe.

Sunday Adelaja

#44. The daring metaphor of Jesus as bridegroom suggests that the living God seeks more than an intimate relationship with us.

Brennan Manning

#45. If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

Gary Chapman

#46. The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.

Karl Jaspers

#47. Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

Kevin James

#48. Oh - and you need to work on making my opinion more important than Josh's, too. I know it's a stretch - he's your most intimate relationship to date, but when you're balls deep in my ass, I'd prefer you not be wondering if it counts as a workout.

Amy Lane

#49. When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners are often chosen to actualize certain potentialities for each other, and the unborn baby becomes party to their drama.

Joan Raphael-Leff

#50. What is Christianity all about? It is about an intimate relationship with God. And I HATE a christendom, a churchianity that God is not big enough and glorious enough so that we have to give them other things.

Paul Washer

#51. Our intimate relationship has always remained and stands above the entirety of love poems ever written. Nothing shall invade this cosmic declaration. One day the heart I had will return. I'm lost in the insecurity of the moment. I'm deeply aching for something more than something that hurts

Jeremy Limn

#52. For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.

Isa Kamari

#53. God desires to have such a close and intimate relationship with Him, and He wants to be the first place you go to and be your place of peace and rest.

Chloe M. Gooden

#54. Father, I want to continue to always grow into a more intimate relationship with You. Expose the areas of my life that hinder me from being Christlike, and cause my life to reflect the character of my precious Savior and Lord.

John Bevere

#55. When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here' ... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

Moby

#56. When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#57. We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

David Richo

#58. Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.

Gerda Lerner

#59. It's not about an organized religious system, it's about a supernatural, intimate relationship with the creator God of Christianity".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#60. I have a theory about soul mates
that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#61. Indeed the very worst kind of man for a women to be in an intimate relationship with, often a truly dangerous man, is the one considered most sexy and desirable in the popular culture.

Jean Kilbourne

#62. The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body.

Deepak Chopra

#63. The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

James Hollis

#64. An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

Patricia L. Fry

#65. An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#66. You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

Haruki Murakami

#67. My relationship with food is intimate. I don't eat and tell.

CeeLo Green

#68. The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [ ... ] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

Laura Miller

#69. However, some people have remarked that it's easier for them to have actual intercourse with their spouse than to kiss them because kissing is too intimate and they just don't have that kind of relationship.

Kristin B. Hodson

#70. The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.

Charles Stanley

#71. The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

Barbara De Angelis

#72. That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.

Italo Calvino

#73. Christianity is an intimate, growing relationship with the person of Jesus Christ. It is not a set of doctrines to believe, habits to practice, or sins to avoid. Every activity God commands is intended to enhance His love relationship with His people.

Henry T. Blackaby

#74. I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

Kim Kardashian

#75. I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

Malcolm Boyd

#76. The more intimate your relationship with God becomes the easier it will be for you to obey His leadings

Sunday Adelaja

#77. As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

Natasha Trethewey

#78. There is the need for an intimate romantic relationship with the father. Abundant joy and an intimate personal receiving of God's love should be our priority because you can never get enough of this, people return again and again to swim in the river or soak in the son.

John Arnott

#79. Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Harriet Lerner

#80. Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

Jarvis Cocker

#81. A flirtatious soul misses the point of intimate trust relations.

T.F. Hodge

#82. There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey.

Nenia Campbell

#83. The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.

James Hollis

#84. The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

David Ogilvy

#85. It is amazing how sharing of one's intimate details can make human beings forget the formality of a relationship and bring them closer together.

Ruchira Khanna

#86. Sophie has always thought that the first time you get the hysterical giggles with a new female friend is like the first time you sleep with a new boyfriend; it takes your relationship to a new more intimate level.

Liane Moriarty

#87. Love is not being married or in a romantic relationship. Love is intimate communion with another's soul.

Cloris Kylie

#88. You learn more about yourself in intimate relationships than any other endeavor. I can go do 'King and I' and sing out in front of 1,000-plus people, but trying to open up about something that's bothering me with somebody that I'm in a relationship with? That's the scariest thing.

Conrad Ricamora

#89. The relationship with my library on a Kindle feels more intimate, like a shelled animal carrying its home on its back.

Linda Grant

#90. The person you're choosing is going to be 90 feet down the hall for four years. That's a pretty intimate and close relationship, and it better be somebody you're comfortable with, you like, you trust, you look forward to seeing, not someone you're coming up with creative ideas on how to avoid.

Mark Shields

#91. The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.

Alice Sebold

#92. From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious.

Caroline Myss

#93. I thought we were gonna take this relationship slow."
"A back rub is harmless."
My eyes roam over her kick-ass bikini-covered bod. "I'll have you know I've been intimate with girls wearin' a lot more.

Simone Elkeles

#94. Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

Christie Hefner

#95. I touched his hand, carefully. Not too intimate, but not some half-assed there-there pat, either. Would he understand? Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me>omg>boner.

Leah Raeder

#96. As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

Mother Teresa

#97. As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.

Mariella Frostrup

#98. There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#99. For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.

Gloria Ng

#100. The relationship between a guy and a girl naturally becomes more intimate as they spend time together.

James C. Dobson