Midst Quotes - Page 13

• Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.

  Beth Moore

  Pain, Heart, Soul

  Beth Moore (2008). “To Live Is Christ”, p.80, B&H Publishing Group

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• Integrate the unseen of what you first are in the midst of all things seen.

  John de Ruiter

  Unseen, Firsts, Integrating

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• Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Character, Compassion

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• To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Heart, World, Fixing

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• When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Disappointment, Joy, Doubt

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• In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Order, Constant, Universe

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• This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.

  David Brooks

  Love Is, Emotional, Order

  "Social Animal". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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• It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Confused, Principles

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• It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

  Ovid

  Sight, Sea, Land

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• We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives. We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Space, Mind

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• Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

  Ricky Williams

  Greatness, Intensity, Willingness

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• We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Serenity, Calamity, Serene

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.

  Savitri Devi

  Beautiful, People, India

  Savitri Devi, G. D. Savarkar (1939). “A Warning to the Hindus”

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• Today, let's be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Blessing, Burdens Of Life, Today

  Twitter post from Dec 06, 2016

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• Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Powerful, Struggle

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• Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Thinking, Two, Phrases

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.70, Kodansha International

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• Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

  Wallace Carothers

  Mother, Earth, Population

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• The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.

  Deepak Chopra

  Time, Scenery, Seers

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• Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

  Debbie Allen

  Beautiful, Block, Independent

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• Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Good Luck, Wish, President

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• I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the very air. It seems as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south winds calls into being.

  Richard Jefferies

  Song, Healing, Sunshine

  Richard Jefferies (1884). “The Life of the Fields”

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• If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

  William Kristol

  Fighting, Government, India And Pakistan

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• Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Mother, Running, Home

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1999). “The Collected Short Works, 1920-1954”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

  Bernard Baruch

  War, Shooting, Cold

  Bernard Baruch's Speech before the Senate's Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, 1948.

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• The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Philosophy, War, Believe

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