#ordinary

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right. ↗

— Howard Dean

#cheap #get #i #i believe #i think

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#any #combinations #daring #effects #effort

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#asia #athens #beauty #confronted #europe

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#neighbor #ordinary-people #religion #art

The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#discipleship #ordinary-life #business

If you want to change the climate of your marriage immediately, start praying for your spouse ↗

— Justin Davis

#faith #marriage #change

I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#ordinary #self #change

We expect our spouses to fill voids in our lives or hearts that only God can fill. Unmet expectations reduce a journey expected to be amazing to ordinary. Unmet expectations breed hurt feelings, misunderstanding, and unresolved conflict. ↗

— Justin Davis

#faith #marriage #faith

It is the small, mundane choices we make every day that cause the biggest difference ↗

— Justin Davis

#faith #marriage #faith

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#ordinary #strange #wonder #life