Ordinary Grace Quotes

#1. Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real. It depends on a special combination of mystery and grace. Too much information breaks the spell.

Virginia Postrel

#2. Ordinary people who walk with an extraordinary God of grace and power, really can make a difference in other as yet unreached lives.

Ross Paterson

#3. Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

John Updike

#4. I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

Jules Renard

#5. We've forgotten that God showers his extraordinary gifts through ordinary means of grace, loves us through ordinary fellow image bearers, and sends us out into the world to love and serve others in ordinary callings.

Michael S. Horton

#6. That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.

William Kent Krueger

#7. He was not sure what he had been expecting. Outstanding beauty, or stunning grace, or something that struck him instantly to the heart. But Ankran's family were an ordinary-looking pair. Most people are, of course, to those that don't know them.

Joe Abercrombie

#8. We want big results-sooner rather than later. And we've forgotten that God showers his extraordinary gifts through ordinary means of grace, loves us through ordinary fellow image bearers, and sends us into the world to love and serve others in ordinary callings. Michael Horton, Ordinary, 14

Michael S. Horton

#9. The sun flickers through the trees and shines upon the faces of the men lined up on the porches. Soldiers no more, just ordinary men who, by the grace of God, were spared to tell their stories

Nancy B. Brewer

#10. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#11. Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Ida Lupino

#12. What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

Richard Llewellyn

#13. We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram.

Venkaiah Naidu

#14. If we enjoy it fully, a moment becomes an unforgettable memory.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Do you cherish your humble and silky life?

Mary Oliver

#16. To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.

Peter Hollingworth

#18. AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Bill W.

#19. When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

Marian Wright Edelman

#21. Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

Matt Chandler

#22. The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common.

David F. Wells

#23. I bet if cancer of the penis was more prevalent there'd be a cure for this fucker. I bet if dicks were being amputated or dropping off left, right and centre there'd have been a cure decades ago. There'd be a whole fucking government dick department dedicated to it.

Amy Andrews

#24. 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.

Oswald Chambers

#25. I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

Taylor Swift

#26. I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

Willem De Kooning

#27. 'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.

William Kent Krueger

#28. There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.

Marian Wright Edelman

#29. In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.

Ursula Hegi