Midst Quotes - Page 15

• The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Biblical, Reality, Offering

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

  John de Ruiter

  Self, Needs, Littles

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• Let your sexuality move in whichever way it does. Do nothing to guide it or control it. What brings it into balance is you being in your heart in the midst of it.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Balance

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• Be warmed in your heart in the midst of your sexuality. Your response to your own sexuality is that you are warmly in it, not exploiting it, not moving away from it, that you are completely present in it, warmed.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Sexuality

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• Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Meditation, Thousand, Activity

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• We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

  Beth Moore

  Storm, Want, Firsts

  Beth Moore (2013). “Whispers of Hope: 10 Weeks of Devotional Prayer”, p.157, B&H Publishing Group

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• 'For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them' (Mt. 18:20). I reverence even two or three praying together, for in accordance with the Lord's promise He Himself is in the midst of them.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Names, Two

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• The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.

  Jim Fergus

  Travel, Fall, Talking

  Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Darkness, Spirituality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests' - the same voice that gave life to the first Adam and spoke to Jesus, the second Adam; the same voice that speaks to all the children of God and sets them free to live in the midst of a dark world while remaining in the light.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Children, Home

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.37, Image

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• God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through an antique treasure chest rifling for the next discovery. Open your arms and your eyes to the God who stands in plain sight and works miracles in your midst. Look for him in your workdays and weekends, in your meeting-filled Mondays and your lazy Saturdays. Search for him in the snowy sunsets and Sabbaths, seasons of Lent and sitting at your table. Pray for—and expect—wonder. For when you search for God, you will discover him.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Monday, Children, Sunset

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• Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.

  Daniel Goleman

  Giving, Challenges, Everyday

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• Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm
  in the midst of so much turbulence.

  Paul McCartney

  Islands, Giving, Meditation

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• Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Torn, Difficulty

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.478, Manonmani Publishers

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• The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Family, Believe, Evil

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• There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Black, Melancholy

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.84, Graphic Arts Books

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• In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Opportunity, Crisis

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• The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  World Government, Evil, Mind

  The Elks Magazine, August 1956.

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• The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Faith In God, Great Things

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.138, Discovery House

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• [It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Work, Connections, Impossible

  Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

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• Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and it would be impossible for the revolution to triumph. In these years [the eighteen years since the founding of the Party] the development, consolidation and bolshevization of our Party have proceeded in the midst of revolutionary wars; without armed struggle the Communist Party would assuredly not be what it is today. Comrades throughout the Party must never forget this experience for which we have paid in blood.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Party

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• [M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of suffering, and which keeps good servants of God in fear when they have nothing to suffer!

  Vincent de Paul

  School, Servant Of God, Suffering

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• ...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Feelings, Affair

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . and I am one of them.

  Unknown

  Christian, People, Joy

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• The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat on a lone boulder in the midst of the curlews. By now, they had grown accustomed to me. This too, I found encouraging-that in the face of stressful intrusions, we can eventually settle in. One begins to almost trust the intruder as a presence that demands greater intent toward life. On a day like today when the air is dry and smells of salt, I have found my open space, my solitude, and sky. And I have found the birds who require it.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Smell, Space, Air

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