Quotes about Commonplace

We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

At the foundation of Jesus Christ's kingdom is the genuine loveliness of those who are commonplace.

One of the gifts that comes with age is an appreciation for some of the more simple, more commonplace things that seem mundane earlier in one's life. As the years pass, the hidden treasure to be found in humble and unpretentious virtues becomes more accentuated—things like rest, silence, and the joy of an ordinary day. The attraction toward activity and achievement lessens, becoming slowly, steadily, and appropriately replaced by an interest in more internal matters.

And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind's ear, "…quite enough for everybody at present," she repeated. After all the foreign languages she had been hearing, it sounded to her pure English. What a lovely language, she thought, saying over to herself again the common place words…

I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and there my vanity steps in...

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

A good showman is one who can dramatize the commonplace events of life and give them the interesting appearance of uniqueness.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary.

There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize him or not to recognize him, but all the more fascinatingly because of that, all the more compellingly and hauntingly.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.