Quotes about Familiarity

A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Your best T-shirt should be like your bed, it just feels like you are home when you are in it.

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

You would think that anyone would jump at the chance to escape shame. But that isn't the way it happens. Though shamed people are happy to guide others out of their dark prisons, they are always sure to get back to their own prisons by nightfall. That's home. That's what they are used to.

Setting out is always a leap of faith, a risk in the deepest sense of the term, and yet an adventure too. The familiar and the habitual are so falsely reassuring, and most of us make our homes there permanently. The new is always by definition unfamiliar and untested, so God, life, destiny, suffering have to give us a push--usually a big one--or we will not go.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

Old Trafford - as a cricket ground, I love playing there. It's a second home for me; I've been going there since I was young. It just feels right there.

This God disrupts the familiarity of the story by interrupting the sacrifice. Picture an early audience gasping. What? This God stopped the sacrifice? The gods don't do that! Second, the God in this story provides. Worship and sacrifice was about you giving to the gods. This story is about this God giving to Abraham. A God who does the giving? A God who does the providing?

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Show me anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new, and I will show you it hath been.