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Ordinary Quotes by Thomas Merton
- It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
- One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value…
- While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.
- Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
- The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
- You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as…
- I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a…
- There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet,…
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- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
- Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be… — Warren G. Bennis
- The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein
- Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the… — Tony Blair
- If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than… — Michael Bloomberg
- The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. — Robert Bresson
- I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance… — Andre Breton
- September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent… — Geraldine Brooks