Quotes about Extraordinary

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.  Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out.

I do not think that people have religion because they relax their usually strict criteria for evidence and accept extraordinary claims; I think they are led to relax these criteria because some extraordinary claims have become quite plausible to them.

You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.

My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.

Common is not the same as universal.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.