“It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.” MenChristianBeliefDifficultSidesViewsAtheismOrdinaryCastsPositive AtheismOrthodoxOrdinary Man Author:Margaret E. Knight
“It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith.” KnowsMenHas BeensFactsChristianCan DoKnownMoralAtheismTeachingOrdinaryBlindValuablePositive AtheismPortionsRejectedAcquaintanceChristian Faith Author:John Stuart Mill
“In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.” ChildrenBookChristianCommunityReligiousEconomicActivityOrdinaryContemporaryGradesIntroducingFamily LifeOne WordCoveringTransactionsReferringAmerican Life Author:Paul Vitz
“I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing.” ThinkingDoeChristianLeadershipChurchGenerationsOrdinaryMeetingsBoundariesSettingSettingsOrdinary Things Author:Francis Chan
“Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well in the light of our extraordinary hope that enables us to embrace the ordinary lives God gives us here and now.” GivingWellsMayStoriesLightChristianDiesReturnOrdinaryEmbraceExtraordinaryFulfillmentHere And NowAfter DeathOrdinary LifeLife After DeathFulfillment In Life Author:Michael Horton
“I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.” ChristianChurchTakenMiddleGrewGrew UpOrdinaryAwfulGrantedTaken For GrantedMiddle Of The Road Author:N. T. Wright
“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .” IfsWellsMeanHelpingChristianSufferingNaturalExistenceChristianityFailingEmotionalSeriousDemandOrdinaryCrossesShameEverydayForgottenTrialsUpliftingRejectionDiscipleshipCalamityTribulationTrials And Tribulations Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Put yourself in the position of a person, sort of an ordinary American, "I'm a hard-working, god-fearing Christian. I take care of my family, I go to church, I, you know, do everything 'right'. And I'm getting shafted. For the last thirty years, my income has stagnated, my working hours are going up, my benefits are going down. My wife has to work two [jobs] to, you know, put food on the table. The children, God, there's no care for the children, the schools are rotten, and so on. What did I do wrong? I did everything you're supposed to do, but something's going wrong to me.” KnowsYearsChildrenPersonsTwoHardCareSchoolChristianJobsLastsHoursChurchWifePositionHard WorkBenefitsOrdinaryMy FamilyTablesTake CareMy WifeIncomeThirtyRottenThirty YearsTwo JobsWhat Did I Do Wrong Author:Noam Chomsky
“We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk about the Christian faith in ordinary conversation.” PeopleNeedsChristianNaturalConversationOrdinaryChristian Faith Author:Mark Dever
“There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic authorities to police their communities. The end of Romans 12 is quite clear about the first; the start of Romans 13 is quite clear about the second.” WorldShouldFirstsEndsChristianCommunityDifferencesClearDutyAuthorityOrdinaryPoliceEmbraceNonviolenceCivicsRomans 12 Author:N. T. Wright
“The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.” HumansIdeasEnoughChristianDesireDiesAsksCircumstancesOrdinaryIdeologyVulnerable Author:Kathleen Norris
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” MenWorldChildrenChristianReligionPrayerFamilyWise WordsOrdinaryExtraordinaryOrdinary ManExtraordinary ThingsInspirational Family Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect. Such freedom is my best description of Christian maturity, because once you know that your “I” is great and one with God, you can ironically be quite content with a small and ordinary “I.” No grandstanding is necessary. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever.” KnowsChristianAcceptingForeverProtectProveOrdinaryDignityImportanceMaturityDescriptionSmallnessOrdinarinessGrandstanding Author:Richard Rohr
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.” PeopleIfsWayWisdomChristianNextChristObjectsHolyGloryOrdinaryBlessedMereNeighborSensesMortalsVersesSacramentsOrdinary PeopleBlessed SacramentMere Mortals Author:C. S. Lewis
“If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.” IfsFactsWould BeChristianRememberJesusJusticeDiversityOrdinarySocial JusticeHistoricalJewDislikeAwkwardAnti SemitismHistorical Facts Author:John Haynes Holmes
“Find joy in the ordinary.” InspirationalChristianHappinessJoyOrdinaryHappyPreacherBeing HappyPursuit Of HappinessTrue HappinessFinding HappinessFeeling HappyLive Life HappyHappiness Is A ChoiceAuthentic HappinessPure JoySpiritual Joy Author:Max Lucado
“Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating with the sacrifice of life itself... This martyrdom of ordinary life constitutes a particularly important witness in the secularized society of our time. It is the peaceful battle of love which every Christian, like Paul, must fight without flagging: the race to spread the Gospel that involves us until our death. May the Virgin Mary, Queen of Martyrs and Star of Evangelization, help us in our daily witness.” IfsGivingMayImportantFactsHelpingChristianLife IsFightingStarsRaceSacrificeExampleBattleOrdinarySpreadCommitKingdomsPeacefulWitnessQueensOur TimeMaryMartyrKingdom Of GodBaptismOrdinary LifeMartyrdomCooperating Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.” PeopleKnowsSeemsChristianNaturalReligiousAtheismOrdinaryScientistReligious FaithPerfectly Natural Author:William Daniel Phillips
“Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."” LoveLifeHeartGodHomeInspirationChristianLife IsFaithChristianityOne ThingAirFeetLove YouFoodFlowerClothesOrdinaryBreatheChristian InspirationalGod LoveWord Of GodCourtesyGod's LoveOrdinary ThingsClothes You Wear Book:A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander Source: A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander
“The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way. For many Christians, however, that language seems abstract, even (sadly) foreign. Dean Nelson lovingly explores those spaces of encountering God; his luminous book has helped me see anew the sacred in the ordinary. I am grateful.” WayLongBookSeemsChristianUsedNamesLanguageChurchSpaceGraceOrdinaryConceptsGratefulSacredAbstractInwardSacramentsDeanLuminousNelsonI Am Grateful Author:Lauren F. Winner