The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.
This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.
Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.
There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for heshe is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written. . .
Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.
The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.
I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.
Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that. . . the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
All intimacies are based on differences.
Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations. . . Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone.