Midst Quotes - Page 6

Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Moon, Silence, Owl

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One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.

Barack Obama

Passion, Government, Law

Barack Obama's Remarks with President Pena Nieto of Mexico in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 22, 2016.

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I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Saul Bellow

Art, Attention, Distraction

"Conversations with Saul Bellow".

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Love is fearless in the midst
of the sea of fear.

Rumi

Love Is, Sea, Fearless

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.708, Delphi Classics

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What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?

Tara Brach

Hands, Two, Rushing

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

Jack Kerouac

Reality, Identity, Chaos

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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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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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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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In the midst of chaos, you've gotta be able to slow it down. That's one of the things that God's gifted me with, it's one of the things that I've trained for, and train for now.

Russell Wilson

Able, Chaos, Gifted

Source: bleacherreport.com

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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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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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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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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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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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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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