The Gospel has to be the norm.

“The core message of the gospel is that God invades us with new life, but the setting for this is most often in the…

— Eugene H. Peterson

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of…

— Lewis H. Lapham

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

— Alice Cooper

If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people…

— Tobi Vail

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

— Tanith Lee

I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The…

— Tituss Burgess

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and…

— Indira Gandhi

There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be…

— Bernard Lonergan

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

— Lauren Groff

Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like…

— Joseph Sobran

Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that…

— Thomas Sowell

Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God.

— Bill Johnson