Quotes about Ordinary

In times of deepest suffering it is the faithful carrying out of ordinary duties that brings the greatest consolation.

Let's state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Ordinary people aren't going to give up emotions and inspiration just because science sniffs at subjectivity. Science shouldn't be so edgy and defensive. Vandals aren't going to smash their way into laboratories and throw Bibles at the equipment.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

And yet this part of the story shows that God supplies our need in a way that is both extraordinary but also ordinary. The extraordinary: The flour and oil were never used up. The ordinary: There was just enough for each day. It was never a case of a hundred barrels of flour and oil being wasted before their eyes. The amount was small and always

Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.