Ordinary Quotes

God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.

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 a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I didn't want to be a loser, but I didn't want to fit in at the same time because I don't like just being ordinary. So it's one of those situations where I always kept my head up.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

I want to put the interests of ordinary working people right up there, center stage. Those people who - you know, they're working all the hours. They're doing their best for their families and sometimes they just feel the odds are stacked against them.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.

When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.

Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed. "Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs." "Really?" "Oh, yes." She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?" "They just are." "In what way?" "In a magicky way." She glared at the back of his head. "They aren't magic at all, are they?" "Not really.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.