Quotes About Ordinary

We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Life. In all it's mundane majesty.

People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.

Steuart, who was also impressed by the great power of the "little objects of ambition" to motivate ordinary persons,[73] presented this same contrast in less positive terms: In former times "men were . . . forced to labour because they were slaves to others; men are now forced to labour because they are slaves to their own wants.

ultimate freedom is a possibility for ordinary people leading ordinary lives. Liberation is not the sole province of spiritual leaders, of ascetics and saints. One needn't live in a cave in Nepal. There are growing accounts of the transformation of Westerners living regular lives.

I wake to a simple longing, all I want of this ordinary hour, this ordinary earth that was long ago married to time: to hear as a sand crab hears the waves, loud as a second heart; to see as a green thing sees the sun, with the undividing attention of blind love. — Jane Hirshfield, from "Rain in May," Of Gravity & Angels . (Wesleyan; 1 edition February 15, 1988)

I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.

The world is what women make of it. This point is crucial—we must make something of it. This presupposes some kind of location in the ordinary world of human affairs, much of which is male-created. Friendship provides a point of crystallization for living in the ordinary world, not the pretense for exiting from it. Friendship does not automatically convey the means of living in the world or of making women into world-builders, but it does provide a location in that world.

As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.

Vaikeinta on unohtaa oppimansa, olla taas tavallinen.

In your pursuit of excellence, remember that hard work is often the remedy to feeling ordinary, incapable, and discouraged.  

We have a way of making the most extraordinary experience ordinary. We actually work at destroying our miracles. ...

This is what language is: a habitual grief. A turn of speech for the everyday and ordinary abrasion of losses such as this: which hurts just enough to be a scar And heals just enough to be a nation.

Never personalize Christ. Don't make Christ into a form identity. Avatars, divine mothers, enlightened masters, the very few that are real, are not special as persons. Without a false self to uphold, defend, and feed, they are more simple, more ordinary than the ordinary man or woman. Anyone with a strong ego would regard them as insignificant or, more likely, not see them at all.

If God used only experts and people of renown, some could boast in their own wisdom, but God's way of doing things is not the same as our way. We ordinary people have been given power and wisdom through the Holy Spirit and are called to love others (John 13:34).

There is an air of plausibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and notions, taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience, that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of some, and to the laziness of others.

What worried Roosevelt was the inability of ordinary people to see the danger of this proliferation of cogs and cylinders and coins in American life.23 The corrupt power of corporations was increasing at an alarming rate

To a foreign eye, America has so much philanthropy and so little charity. Most people have to kill themselves to prove that they deserve ordinary kindness, while a tiny group of people never stop boasting about how generous they are – as long as it's tax-deductible.

The ordinary is not good enough for us; our hubris wants something grandiose. But the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic.

God has determined that run-of-the-mill people do most of his work—

The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary.

Dogs and horses are difficult; demons and fascinating things are easy". The idea is that painting dogs and horses is difficult because they are so ordinary; demons and grotesque objects, on the other hand, are quite easily depicted.

I can be black magic Or boring as hell.

A goddess who had dragged herself out of the ocean then become an ordinary old woman.