Midst Quotes - Page 25

• Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

  Philip Yancey

  Broken, Agents, World

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• The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin and bear it' in the midst of hardship.  No, the good news is that God is hanging on to you, and in the end, when all is said and done, the power of God will triumph over every pain and loss.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Pain, Loss, Triumph

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• In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Grace, Loving Jesus

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.87, David C Cook

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• The Sessions becomes a dance of joy in the midst of severe challenge, and a movie with a light spirit that lifts a tale of heavy fate.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Fate, Light, Joy

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• How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting for words to express it. The answer came more slowly: No one makes you angry. Anger, like love, is something you choose. Stunned, I sat down in the middle of the field I'd been walking through. I knew I needed to look within myself, let go of my anger and have a quiet talk with God.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Letting Go, Anger, Love Is

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.92, Anchor

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• Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to divine stirrings. No, we are then also being simply unfaithful to the surrounding reality. The one who purges gloom has given occasions and reasons, in the midst of life's sadness, to be joyful.

  Martin E. Marty

  Sadness, Reality, Unfaithful

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• There is no tongue to speak his eulogy;
  Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes:
  Far easier to condemn his injurers,
  Than for the tongue to reach his smallest worth.
  He to the realms of sinfulness came down,
  To teach mankind; ascending then to God,
  Heaven unbarred to him her lofty gates,
  To whom his country hers refused to ope.
  Ungrateful land, to its own injury
  Nurse of his fate! Well too does this instruct,
  That greatest ills fall to the perfectest.
  And 'midst a thousand proofs, let this suffice,
  That, as his exile had no parallel,
  So never was there man more great than he.

  Michelangelo

  Country, Fall, Eye

  "Michael Angelo, considered as a philosophic poet".

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• Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Faith, Ordinary, Earth

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.12, Revell

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• We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

  Hermann Hesse

  Loneliness, Self, Soul

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• The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Moving, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.152, Graphic Arts Books

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• It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

  Alice Sebold

  Years, Nine, Succeed

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• Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.

  Francois Fenelon

  Peace, Pain, Spring

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• In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.

  Alejo Carpentier

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Greatness

  Alejo Carpentier (1990). “The Kingdom of this World”, Andre Deutsch

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• Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.

  John Milton

  Flower, Men, Rivers

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Lost”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, War, Disease And Death

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.65, Multnomah

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• If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Dawn, Foolish

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.20, Discovery House

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• To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Letting Go, Religious

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• The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Views, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, Penguin

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• Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Fate, Blessing

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• Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.

  Sarah Schulman

  School, Rights, Media

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• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Children, Fear

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• God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by wicked actions rather than by good. Hence it is that men feed upon each other, and those who cannot defend themselves must be worried.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Business, War

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• I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.

  Bobby Jones

  Lonely, Golf, People

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• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Carpe Diem, Anxiety, Alarms

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.96, ReadHowYouWant.com

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