“Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.” FacesAbilityDarknessOrdinaryUltimateOrdinary PeopleAnthem Author:Joe Dempsie
“The firefly is an unassuming insect in the daytime. If you didn't know what it was, you'd think it was nothing special. But at night, the firefly glows with its own light source. The darkness brings out its most beautiful gift. That's an extraordinary talent for an ordinary-looking creature, isn't it?” IfsThinkingKnowsLightBeautifulNightDarknessSpecialTalentSourceCreaturesOrdinaryExtraordinaryInsectsDaytimeFireflyUnassuming Book:Rainshadow Road Source: Rainshadow Road
“I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayHumansKindHelpingPainSpiritualDifficultLossExistenceRolesDarknessSadnessApproachOrdinaryEaseServingSecularHuman Existence Author:Kevin Hart
“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.” BelieveEvilFoundKindnessDarknessOrdinaryAnd LoveEverydayFolksDeedsChecksGreat PowerActs Of KindnessSmall ActsSmall Acts Of KindnessGreat Hobbit Author:Peter Jackson
“Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.” PeopleImportantEyeSilenceDarknessOrdinaryEarsProfoundOrdinary LifeProfundity Author:W. H. Auden
“Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.” PeopleKnowsWorldMindBelieveIdeasEnoughLightDarknessOrdinaryAbsolutesDefinitionsCleverObjectivesAbsurdHelplessOrdinary PeopleRelativismMeaninglessnessObjective TruthMeaningfulnessSubjectivism Author:Peter Kreeft
“The ritual of exorcism is not practiced by an ordinary priest. An exorcist requires specific training and must be thought to have a personal sanctity. He can be exposed to dangerous behavior and personal threat. His prayers often cause a violent response as he attempts to shine a beam of light into the darkness.” LightCausesPrayerDarknessDangerousBehaviorTrainingOrdinaryShiningThreatResponseViolentPriestsRitualExposedBeamSanctityExorcismExorcistBeams Of Light Author:Gabriele Amorth
“If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.” IfsFirstsLightFoundDarknessHappenedOrdinaryLensesArcsGlare Book:The Shipping News: A Novel Source: The Shipping News: A Novel
“Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed. "Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs." "Really?" "Oh, yes." She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?" "They just are." "In what way?" "In a magicky way." She glared at the back of his head. "They aren't magic at all, are they?" "Not really.” WaySaidDarknessMagicOrdinaryDisappointedStairsSkulduggery PleasantValkyrie Cain Author:Derek Landy
“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.” PeopleWorldWayMaySometimesLightPainSpiritSufferingForceLosesAnswersPowerfulHealingDarknessToo MuchThis WorldOrdinarySightExtraordinaryEncountersOrdinary People Author:Mother Teresa
“There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.” IfsMenWellsMadeTurnsStrongDarknessKingsOrdinaryMonstersChainsCurseBeastVengeanceStrawsFieryOrdinary ManChained Author:David Gemmell