Ordinary Quotes

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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to… — Frances O'Grady
The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the… — Richard J. Foster
The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before… — Swami Satchidananda
Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence. — Ralph Marston
The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it… — Dallas Willard
God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on… — Smith Wigglesworth
Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time. — Susan Cheever
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really… — Alvin Langdon Coburn
I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant. — Steven Millhauser
Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a… — Michael Cisco
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars. — Chris Marker
Leadership isn’t the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It’s a process ordinary people use when they’re bringing forth the best from… — James M. Kouzes
The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him. — Henry Blackaby
Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things. — Neil Gershenfeld
But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre;… — Rafe Esquith
We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good… — Hsu Yun
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains… — Charles Ives
Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. — Matthew Knisely
Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is… — Nan Fairbrother
Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences — Deepak Chopra
Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being. — Brian Jacques
The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge… — Baruch Spinoza
The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved)… — John Bertram Phillips

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