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Distance Quote by Jim Elliot

“God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!” quote by Jim Elliot — Download Open image

“God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!”

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I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

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I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance.

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Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

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Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

Patricia McConnell

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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists of fragments where some are so blinding in their intensity that they make everything else indistinguishable. It feels as if my existence was extinguished in a flash, and afterwards my universe became incomprehensible. I want to…

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in…

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