In your love of life… I see the ordinary fear of death.
But let me tell you, my brother, eternity is another thing than we ordinarily take it to be in a healthful state. Oh, how vast and boundless! Oh, how fixed and unalterable! Oh, of what infinite importance is it, that we be prepared for eternity!
—David Brainerd
Our Lord has hallowed the ordinary in such a way that no one can ever make it unspiritual.
—Amy Carmichael
The ordinary man is always doing things, yet many more are left to be done.
—Laozi
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
—Aldous Huxley
Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
—Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
—Socrates
Many of us want nothing radical or out of the ordinary, and we want God to accommodate us at our convenience. Thus we attach a rider to every prayer, making it impossible for God to answer it.
—AW Tozer
But let me tell you, my brother, eternity is another thing than we ordinarily take it to be in a healthful state. Oh, how vast and boundless! Oh, how fixed and unalterable! Oh, of what infinite importance is it, that we be prepared for eternity!
—David Brainerd
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
—Isaac Newton
To be troubled for grosser sins and have no trouble for ordinary sins daily incurred is an ill sign of a bad heart.
—John Flavel
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
—Oscar Wilde
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
—Charles Darwin
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
It requires a serious mind & a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual. Most Christians never do.
—AW Tozer
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
—Blaise Pascal
An ordinary person expects good or bad from the outside, and a thinking person expects that from within.
—Taras Shevchenko
It is an expression of Luther’s that ordinary works, done in faith and from faith, are more precious than heaven and earth.
—Jeremiah Burroughs