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So I am a radical in the truest sense of the word: an ordinary radical who wants to get at the root of what it means to love, and to get at the root of what has made such a mess of our world.
- Shane Claiborne
Wouldn't we all go to a church that believes in ordinary fools and ragamuffins and whose gospel is actually good news? I
- Shane Claiborne
A change happens because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
- Barack Obama
Unlike most academics, Warren showed a gift for translating financial analysis into stories that ordinary folks could understand. In the intervening years, she had emerged as one of the financial industry's most effective critics, prompting Harry Reid to appoint her as chair of the congressional panel overseeing TARP.
- Barack Obama
Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Thousands of ordinary people were part of this metropolis, but their homes would have been perishable wattle and thatch, stuccoed with lime and mud. Every trace of their living has returned to the earth now, except for the limestone temples of art and worship. The things made of ambition, which rise higher than daily bread.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: "Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people. Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work.
- Eugene Peterson
Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.
- Eugene Peterson
Pastoral work is a commitment to the everyday: it is an act of faith that the great truths of salvation are workable in the "ordinary universe."
- Eugene Peterson
Many a quiet, ordinary, and hidden life, unknown to the world, is a veritable garden in which Love's flowers and fruits have come to such perfection that it is a place of delight where the King of Love himself walks and rejoices with his friends.
- Hannah Hurnard
Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
- Shane Claiborne
There is one word to describe the night He came - ordinary... But God dances amidst the common. And that night He did a waltz.
- Max Lucado