Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
War grows out of ordinary human nature.
Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.
It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.
Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.
For too many ordinary people, political progress must now be matched by substantial humanitarian assistance.
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.