Midst Quotes - Page 20

• There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Taken, Meals, Should

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• Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

  Del Close

  Laughter, Tragedy, Possibility

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• To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Suffering, World, God's Will

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• The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Enemy, Kingdoms

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

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• If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Lonely, Perfect, Warfare

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• The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.

  Ann Voskamp

  Prayer, Thinking, Soul

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• I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

  Bertice Berry

  Long Ago, World, Down And

  Bertice Berry (2002). “Jim and Louella's Homemade Heart-Fix Remedy”, p.24, Broadway Books

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• 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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• You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

  Jack Kerouac

  Reality, Identity, Chaos

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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 regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Adventure, Soul

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• You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

  Richard Bach

  Knowing, Games, Play

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• In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and whenever this happens, I go with it. That's what inspiration is. You don't get it from the gods. You make it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Believe, Inspiration, Cynical

  "How to believe in yourself - even if you sometimes don't" by Jeffrey Eugenides, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2012.

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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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• Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

  Martin Heidegger

  Self, World, Who We Are

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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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• Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Prayer, Lucky, Enough

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.178, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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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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• Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Reality

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