“The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.” PeopleIfsShouldReasonHappensAblePurposeSidesHurtCitiesMorningMillionsEffectsStrangeTerribleTenHappeningsOrdinaryEternityDelightThings HappenBurningBreathingLive LifeRememberedIt HurtsOrdinary PeopleWizardsTerrible ThingsStrange ThingsSide Effects Author:Diane Duane
“[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)” GivingHumansStillsMatterJesusHuman BeingsQualityPromiseOrdinaryWeaknessEternityWholenessCompanionshipSurroundingsRuthlessCopingImpartOrdinary LifeDallas Author:Brennan Manning
“The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.” TryingShowsSpiritPrayerHumilityProveOrdinaryTestsEternityImportanceDaily LifeDiscipleship Book:Humility: The Beauty of Holiness Source: Humility: The Beauty of Holiness
“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.” HumansHomeAgeScienceLostUnderstandingOrdinaryEternitySizeTinyCosmosImmensityPale Blue Dot Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos
“Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.” MomentsRememberInspiringDivineMessagesOrdinaryAngelEternityWitnessMessengers Author:Forrest Church
“We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.” MomentsTalkingListeningOrdinaryEternityNotion Author:Alan Watts
“Surrender your will to Him. Unconditionally. Withhold nothing. Turn it all over to Him; all of your desires, wishes, dreams and hopes. Trust in Him. Trust Him who knows all things. Trust Him who has all power. Trust Him whose love for you is perfect. Trust Him, who alone suffered, paid, and atoned for you sins, and for your weaknesses as well. Trust Him that He will make of you immeasurably more than what you will ever, ever, in all eternity make of yourself. He will create of you a masterpiece. You will create of you only a smudge. You will create an ordinary man. He will create a God.” KnowsMenWellsDreamDesireTurnsWishSinPerfectOrdinaryWeaknessAll ThingsEternityPaidSurrenderMasterpieceOrdinary Man Author:Lawrence E. Corbridge