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Prayer is a walk with God....We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it, you'll never have that intimacy of ministering to the Lord and worshiping Him with a group that you'll have in your own individual life.
Kenneth E. Hagin
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Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.
Bill Johnson
Nobility is my essence. Humility is my task. Bonding with the Almighty is my fountain of life.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
Alain de Botton
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True intimacy with God always brings humility.
Beth Moore
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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.
Mike Bickle
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We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.
J. Oswald Sanders
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Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.
J. Oswald Sanders
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I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
Jim Goldberg
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there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
Brad Meltzer
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
Dallas Willard
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With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.
Tommy Tenney
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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
Brennan Manning
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True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
Henry Cloud
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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
Warsan Shire
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Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.
Rick Warren
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Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.
Judith Viorst
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The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
Michael Eric Dyson
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The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.
Jon Foreman
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What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Monica Baldwin
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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
James Dickey
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I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us.
Terry Tempest Williams
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As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.
Murasaki Shikibu
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It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
Stephanie Dowrick
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Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
Arthur Balfour
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Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.
Mark Rothko
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The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.
Mark Rothko
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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.
Layne Staley
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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
Aberjhani
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To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
David Whyte
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Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
Francis Chan
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
Rollo May
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The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
Emile M. Cioran
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
Rollo May
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Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Amy Bloom
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True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.
William Temple
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When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.
Peter Høeg
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There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
Charley Pride
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Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
Jean de la Bruyere
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They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
Jean Genet
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During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.
Joshua Harris
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The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
Parker J. Palmer
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It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.
Florence Welch
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.
Maggie Scarf