Midst Quotes - Page 11

• Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Enemy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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• Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Knack, Panic

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Heart, Would Be

  Martin Luther (1823). “Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525”, p.5

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• After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

  Lin Yutang

  Hero, Mean, Men

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• A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Exercise, People

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• Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a sermon, not in the throes of some kind of religious daydream, but...at supper time, or walking along a road...He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Jesus, Real

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 29, 2016

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• A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Stress, Home, Storm

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Biblical, Reality, Offering

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

  John de Ruiter

  Self, Needs, Littles

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• Your mind is like a servant to you. Whatever you are being in the midst of your mind, your mind is going to be the same to you.

  John de Ruiter

  Mind, Servant

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• Let your sexuality move in whichever way it does. Do nothing to guide it or control it. What brings it into balance is you being in your heart in the midst of it.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Balance

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• Be warmed in your heart in the midst of your sexuality. Your response to your own sexuality is that you are warmly in it, not exploiting it, not moving away from it, that you are completely present in it, warmed.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Sexuality

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• When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything.

  John de Ruiter

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• I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

  Billy Graham

  Compassion, Suffering, Tragedy

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Meditation, Thousand, Activity

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• We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

  Beth Moore

  Storm, Want, Firsts

  Beth Moore (2013). “Whispers of Hope: 10 Weeks of Devotional Prayer”, p.157, B&H Publishing Group

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• Provided they live a worthy life, both those who choose to dwell in the midst of noise and hubbub and those who dwell in monasteries, mountains and caves can achieve salvation. Solely because of their faith in Him God bestows great blessings on them. Hence those who because of their laziness have failed to attain salvation will have no excuse to offer on the day of judgment. For He who promised to grant us salvation simply on account of our faith in Him is not a liar.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Liars, Blessing

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• We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall not find it is owing to ignorance, but to wisdom. For it was not to our advantage to know; in order that we being ignorant of the actual moments of judgment to come, might ever be as it were on guard, and set on the watch-tower of virtue, and so avoid the habits of sin; lest the day of the Lord should come upon us in the midst of our wickedness.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Ignorance, Order

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• May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never be entangled in the snares of the wicked that go round about, or bound with the chains of your sins. May the Word in you never be smothered with the cares of this life and so make you unfruitful: but may you walk in the King's Highway, turning aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, but led by the Spirit through the narrow gate.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Kings, Children

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• 'For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them' (Mt. 18:20). I reverence even two or three praying together, for in accordance with the Lord's promise He Himself is in the midst of them.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Names, Two

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• The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.

  Jim Fergus

  Travel, Fall, Talking

  Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

  George Santayana

  Spring, Animal, World

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Darkness, Spirituality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.

  John Calvin

  Kingdoms, Invisible, Visible

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• The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.

  Francis Chan

  True Joy, Difficult, Teach

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.143, David C Cook

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