Ordinary Acts Quotes

I don't feel like I've done anything extraordinary but take my little light and shine it in darkness.

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Every hero doesn't do this great big hero thing. They do the simple thing over and over... and they stick to it.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.