Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we c...
I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it being present and making a sacrifice. Perhaps that’s why Jesus is sometimes called Immanuel - “G...
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and...
to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you, something else is hurting you - that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fuckin...
I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions, I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life...
[last lines] Cutter: Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the pledge, the magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the turn, the magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into so...
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Illusions of freedom will never satisfy me.
Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.
The ordinary public is a puppet of worthless news and media.
I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
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.
