Quotes about Ordinary

Anyone who listens to the world, anyone who seeks the sacred in the ordinary events of life, has "problems about how to believe.

That is the way God works. Without even a hint of warning, He speaks to ordinary people, on ordinary days.

God not only moves in mysterious ways, He moves in mundane days.

Milton's Paradise is quite available these days, if not in fact certainly as ordinary, unexceptionable desire.

When he arrived he thought their flaws were normal; their disagreements ordinary. They were pleased by the accomplishments of their neighbors and their mockery of the lazy and the loose was full of laughter. Or used to be. Now, it seemed, the glacial wariness they once confined to strangers more and more was directed toward each other.

I dedicate this book to all the His-story makers disguised as ordinary humans living normal lives, but who are actually sons and daughters of God who have the mind of Christ. You are the Lord's secret service, His ambassadors of heaven who walk in power, think like God and love the hell out of people. May He hide you everywhere, from the palaces of royalty to the streets of obscurity, and may you transform everything your heart has the opportunity to touch.

It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism.

I'm just an ordinary person." That, of course, was exactly the appeal of this story. How, indeed, had God been able to use a fellow, with a bad back, a limited education, no sponsorship and no funds, to do things that well-connected, well-endowed people said were impossible? For us and other ordinary people, that was what made Brother Andrew's adventures so intriguing.

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.