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“In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.”

Kind Opportunity Effort Ordinary Embrace Shining Excellence Extras Endeavor Mediocrity Extra Effort

Author:Ralph Marston

“Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.”

Art Light Able Trouble Ordinary Shining Consolation Ordinary Life Art And Music

Author:Roger Scruton

“We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.”

Perfect Grace Example Ordinary Essence Miracle Shining Everyday Meant To Be Ordinary Life

Book:Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual activity: drawing water and carrying wood.”

Care Spiritual Water Wealth Honor Activity Conflict Ordinary Harmony Shining Affair Obstacles Woods Drawing Rejects Who Cares Miraculous Poorest

Author:Layman Pang

“I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient--not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities.”

Should Humans Mean Persons Leadership Wealth Quality Teach Genius Highest Ordinary Shining Right Thing Subtle Right Time Convenient Apprehension Coexist Tact Human Qualities

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.”

Light Eye Faces Speak Heaven Hell Expression Glory Ordinary Shining Heavenly Your Face Light Up Gleam

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“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.”

Light Causes Prayer Darkness Dangerous Behavior Training Ordinary Shining Threat Response Violent Priests Ritual Exposed Beam Sanctity Exorcism Exorcist Beams Of Light

Author:Gabriele Amorth

“The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.”

Writing Ordinary Shining Acquire Brilliance

Book:Notes on cinematography

Source: Notes on cinematography

“After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3”

Years I Can Found Ordinary Shining Eighteen Swans Bella Swan

Author:Stephenie Meyer