“God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.”
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Mormon leader 1926–2004Related quotes
“The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.”
Variant: Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.
Source: The Lucky One
“Limits… seem to me of two kinds, ordinary or natural, and extraordinary or beyond the natural.”
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Context: Limits... seem to me of two kinds, ordinary or natural, and extraordinary or beyond the natural. The first limits comprise within them the qualities which deviate more or less from the mean, without attracting attention by excess on one side or the other. When the deviations become greater, they constitute the extraordinary class, having itself its limits, on the outer verge of which are things preternatural... We must conceive the same distinctions in the moral world.
“There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.”
Source: UnWholly
Elizabeth Green, Chapter 15, Beth, p. 274
Variant: Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green)
Source: 2000s, The Lucky One (2008)
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Statement made in 1935 or earlier, as quoted in The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern (1937) by Burton Egbert Stevenson
“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”