Midst Quotes - Page 8

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

Saul Bellow

Art, Achievement, Chaos

In George Plimpton 'Writers at Work' (1967) 3rd series, p. 190

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Those who will repent and forsake sin will find that His merciful arm is outstretched still. Those who listen to and heed His words and the words of His chosen servants will find peace and understanding even in the midst of great heartache and sorrow. The result of His sacrifice is to free us from the effects of sin, that all may have guilt erased and feel hope.

Boyd K. Packer

Sacrifice, Heartache, Understanding

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In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing of America' - better known as 'the whining of America.' The cause of all the heartache, in the esteemed newspaper of record's view, appears to be heartless corporate chieftains - as well as capitalism itself. Americans are moving forward, despite shackles. The shackles I am referring to are not NAFTA, not corporations. They are, instead, the barriers imposed by our own government.

Rush Limbaugh

Moving, Heart, Government

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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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...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

Antonio Guterres

Children, Moving, People

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He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

Vikram Sarabhai

Noise, Achieve, Great Things

Outlook India, August 19, 2002.

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There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.

Walther Rathenau

Men, Race, Self

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If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive of this Incarnation as something which is still present and which will remain present for all future time. ... What happens in the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist is something for which all religions of mankind have exressed longing, dimly sensed was coming, and as a rule even prefigured- the physical presence of the divine Logos made man, and the presence of his sacrificial death, in the midst of the congregation celebrating the mysteries.

Josef Pieper

Men, Justice, Logos

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I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.

Zainab Salbi

Motivation, War, Inspiration

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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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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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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 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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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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We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

Swami Satchidananda

Serenity, Calamity, Serene

Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.

Savitri Devi

Beautiful, People, India

Savitri Devi, G. D. Savarkar (1939). “A Warning to the Hindus”

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Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

Albert Camus

Spring, Winter, Endless

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Today, let's be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.

Lysa TerKeurst

Blessing, Burdens Of Life, Today

Twitter post from Dec 06, 2016

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Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Thinking, Two, Phrases

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.70, Kodansha International

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"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

Swami Vivekananda

Dwelling, Water, Fool

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3603, Manonmani Publishers

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