Undue Familiarity Quotes

#1. If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

Oswald Chambers

#2. A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

J.I. Packer

#3. I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.

J. Tillman

#4. I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.

Marty Feldman

#5. Only when you can feel contempt for your own priceless little ego, only then can you achieve the true, broad peace of selflessness, the merging of your spirit with the vast collective spirit of mankind. There is no room for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser's hole of a private ego.

Ayn Rand

#6. Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Thomas Mann

#7. I loved playing the headmistress in 'The Falling' - she was so spiteful. She certainly fancied herself quite a lot.

Monica Dolan

#8. Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

Jerry Pournelle

#9. I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.

Marguerite Duras

#10. We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

Barack Obama

#11. I've got a really sweet tooth and sometimes I just have to have some chocolate.

Kirsty Gallacher

#12. I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Debbie Reynolds

#13. It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

Ken Livingstone