Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.
It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.
I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.
Since truffle oil and caviar aren't always in the budget, learning to tweak and enhance just a few ingredients and flavor combinations can help you transform those ordinary ingredients into the extraordinary!
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
That's No Ordinary Girl Ponytail (Short Story)
In the mind of an ordinary, 1+1 = 2; but, in the mind of an extraordinary, 1+ 1 = 10.
Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.
This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
I can't promise you an ordinary experience, Kate. I wish I could transform myself into a normal man and be there for you, always, without the trauma that defines my life as "the walking dead." Since that isn't possible, I can only reassure you that I...
And that fear I'd felt, the disembodying confusion, seemed to be a drug I was now addicted to, because moving through the ordinary world- watching CNN, reading the Times, walking to Sant Ambroeus to have a coffee at the bar- made me feel exhausted, e...
If you are writing a story, miracles or abnormal events may be bad art, or they may not. If, for example, you are writing an ordinary realistic novel and have got your characters into a hopeless muddle, it would be quite intolerable if you suddenly c...
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see t...
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.
