“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own’, or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one’s ‘real life’ is a phantom of one’s own imagination.” -C.S. Lewis
Tag Archives: ordinary
The Ordinary is the Real
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.” -Annie Dillard
Radical or Ordinary? Both and Neither
“The call to be radical can make you exhausted, but the call to be ordinary can make you apathetic.” -Rankin Wilbourne
Baby Steps in Holiness
”The smallest good act today is the strategic point from which, months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.”
The Beautiful, The Ordinary, and The Ugly in a Fallen World
Heaven in the Ordinary
“As a gift of the Spirit, however, prayer becomes the continuation of a conversation God has started. If that conversation proceeds, as in the best conversations, praying becomes meeting with God–heaven in the ordinary.” -Tim Keller
Ordinary Love, But Palpably and Tangibly Real
“God loves us through ordinary fellow image bearers and sends us out into the world to love and serve in ordinary callings.” -Michael Horton