... there is nothing harder in life than to not conform to…

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact…

— Jerry Bridges

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

— George A. Smith

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. -

— Aphra Behn

In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that…

— Annie Besant

People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment…

— David Stove

“The Spirit doesn’t simply make me a singular new creation. He makes me part of God’s new creation people. He inscribes God’s rule on…

— Michael Lawrence

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they…

— Edward Bouverie Pusey

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties,…

— David Hume

The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet it serves…

— Thomas Hobbes

“Such are the limitations of the human mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men…

— Frederick Douglass

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that…

— Joshua L. Liebman

“in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. In truth, a…

— Herman Melville

“He came to save sinners, to heal the sick, to preach the good news to the poor, and to live a common life hidden…

— Brian Kennelly