“Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.” IfsThinkingMenMeanAbleNamesHeavenWaitingWhiteFiguresTerribleOrdinaryAll ThingsLongingEndlessGatesDoomedOrdinary Man Book:Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories Source: Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories
“Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the physical is a block to the spiritual. When we assume that the spiritual, unlike the physical, is impervious to corrosion, then we assume that all things material are not to be honored. But the fact of the matter is, the material is the vehicle of the spiritual.” PeopleThinkingMatterFactsSpiritualTaughtMaterialsDemandOrdinaryAll ThingsAssumingBlockSpiritual LifeVehicleHonoredImplicationsWithdrawalImpervious Author:Joan D. Chittister
“He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.” IfsSaidOrdinaryAll ThingsExtraordinaryEnchantedOrdinary Things Author:Dean Koontz
“In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.” IfsWayLittlesUniverseOrdinaryAll ThingsExtraordinaryGlimpseEnchantedTruth And Beauty Book:A Big Little Life Source: A Big Little Life
“It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."” NeedsShouldWellsMayArtMadeBookMysterySpecialOrdinaryUnderstoodArt IsAll ThingsCookingIllPityChairsWorks Of ArtStatuesCarpe DiemSauceOccultCarpe Author:Oscar Wilde
“Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.” OrderVoicePrayerAttentionFailingSpecialListeningBearsOrdinaryAll ThingsToneAccentsGod Speaking Author:Charles Brent
“I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” InspirationalLittlesTalentOrdinaryAll ThingsExtraordinaryPerseveranceDoctrinePerserverance Author:Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet