Midst Quotes - Page 18

• Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Truth, Deception, Truth Of Life

  Friedrich Schiller, Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson, Leonard Ashley Willoughby (1967). “Schiller: Aesthetic education”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, Broken, Silence

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.118

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• The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is in his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face and his obedience is to his orders. He has been called United States Marine.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Pride, Marine, Fighting

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.482, Open Road Media

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• We’re in the midst of a boom in home-based businesses, and it shows no sign of slowing.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Home, Network Marketing, Shows

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• On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Hands, Two, Creative

  "Essays with a Purpose".

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• Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

  J. D. Greear

  Jesus, Doubt, Absence

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• The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears.

  Lee Roberson

  Moving, Forever, Tears

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• Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Fall, Earthquakes, Inevitable Death

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

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• A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Stay Strong, Warrior, Storm

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, D. E. Tarver (2002). “The Hagakure: Yamamoto Tsunetomo”, p.21, iUniverse

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• Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

  Denis Johnson

  Voice, Happy Times, People

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• O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Justice, Earth, Ease

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• From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Vex, Bitterness

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• In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Knives, Civilization, Voice

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in search of man: a philosophy of Judaism”

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• Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

  Laozi

  Strength, Truth, Heart

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• Having your spiritual radar up in constant anticipation of His presence- even in the midst of the joyful chaos and regular rhythms of your everyday living- is paramount in hearing God, because sometimes the place and manner you find Him is the least spectacular you'd expect.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Spiritual, Everyday, Hearing

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• We can see hope in the midst of hopelessness. We can see peace in the midst of chaos. We have a hope that the world does not have. We can see clearly that all things work together for the good of them that love Him and are called according to His purpose.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Working Together, Doe, Purpose

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• Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Beach, People

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• If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying, eros, eros, eros.

  Odysseas Elytis

  Love, Wind, People

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• We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.

  Ken Wilber

  Love, Forgiving, Littles

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• The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted efforts of a determined will to do good. This act of faith strikes through the darkness of your soul like lightening. In the midst of tempest it raises you up and leads you to God.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Sacrifice, Effort, Soul

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• The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Happiness, Forgiveness

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 01, 2010

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• My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Roots, Light

  John Ruskin, David Carrier, Walter Pater, Adrian Stokes (1997). “England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste”, p.44, Psychology Press

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• For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Home

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

  Jane Austen

  Sweet, Time, Autumn

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• It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Time, Future

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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