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“No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.”

Men Children Made Hard Done Night Hours Mom Demand Ordinary Responsible Eulogy Single Mom Small Child Work Done

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to rappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.”

Joy Order Enemy Demand Goodness Ordinary Perfection Imperfection

Author:Richard Rohr

“Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.”

Age Youth Demand Ordinary Aging Ordinary Life

Author:Mason Cooley

“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.”

People Thinking Matter Facts Spiritual Taught Materials Demand Ordinary All Things Assuming Block Spiritual Life Vehicle Honored Implications Withdrawal Impervious

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?”

“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 .”

“The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.”

Asks Jesus Difficult Demand Goodness Ordinary Regard Extraordinary Usual

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.”

“A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.”

Children Mother Turns Company Comfort Demand Ordinary Adults Fellows Affection Selfish Horrible Selfless Ordinary Life Horrible Things

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.”

Giving Novel Alive Reader Demand Ordinary Prepared Prose

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.”

Country Speak Difficult Liberty Teach Wonderful Sacrifice Demand Taxes Ordinary Tables Folks Libertarian Hungry Contentment Libertarianism Abyss Destined Ruling Wonderful Times

Author:Bertolt Brecht