Suffering has a noble purpose.
All but one of Zoe Pendergraft's friends were dead.
Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.
As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.
I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.
I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!
Special is one... If it's more than one, then it's ordinary.
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
Paul Smecker: [enters the police station, packed with cops] First of all, I'd like to thank whichever one of you donut-munching, barrel-assed, pud-pulling sissies leaked this to the press. That's just what we need now: some sensational story in the p...
The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt, just like being in credit, means an active interest ...
But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years later, Lazarus died again. Jesus healed the sick, but eventually caught some other disease. He fed the ...
If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people. Then we can look into the eyes of a centurion and see not a beast but a child of God, and then walk with...
North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing w...
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...
