True Intimacy Quotes

• Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Enemy, Doe

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.18, Image

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• True intimacy with God always brings humility.

  Beth Moore

  Humility, Christian Inspirational, Intimacy

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• If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

  Henri Nouwen

  True Friend, Love Is, Enemy

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.23, Image

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• All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

  Amy Bloom

  Intimacy

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• People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.

  Stendhal

  Family, Heart, Self

  Stendhal (1986). “Armance”, Dufour Editions

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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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• 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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• Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.

  John Friend

  Couple, Communication, Ideas

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• There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

  Thomas Merton

  Soul, Solitude, Intimacy

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.175, Shambhala Publications

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• True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

  Henry Cloud

  Intimacy, Disagree

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• It's easy to have a relationship and show each other only the beautiful shiny things. Sharing good parts about you is elementary, so finding a partner in life can't be only about showcasing these agreeable characteristics, but also the less impressive ones. In a strange way, true intimacy lies in that dark side-in making peace with the fact that it lives inside you somewhere-so that you can share it with the person and they can be there to help you overcome it.

  Claudio Sanchez

  Beautiful, Lying, Dark

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• Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Intimacy, Depends

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

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• True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status, make little difference here; even genius does not presuppose the talent to reveal one's self completely and completely absorb one's self in another personality. Intimacy is to love what concentration is to work: a simultaneous drawing together to attention and release of energy.

  Robert Grudin

  Life, Self, Drawing

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Beth Moore

  Praise, Intimacy, Compulsory

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