Midst Quotes - Page 13

• Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Selfish, Thinking, Imagination

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . and I am one of them.

  Unknown

  Christian, People, Joy

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• The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat on a lone boulder in the midst of the curlews. By now, they had grown accustomed to me. This too, I found encouraging-that in the face of stressful intrusions, we can eventually settle in. One begins to almost trust the intruder as a presence that demands greater intent toward life. On a day like today when the air is dry and smells of salt, I have found my open space, my solitude, and sky. And I have found the birds who require it.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Smell, Space, Air

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• There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.

  Harlan Ellison

  Art, Amazon, Haskell

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• The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

  Susan Sontag

  Perspective, Exotic, Association

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• The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dark, Flames, Age

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 149), 1895.

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• Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.

  June Hunt

  Suicide, Struggle, Crowds

  June Hunt (2014). “June Hunt Hope for the Heart Biblical Counseling Library”, p.1070, Rose Publishing Inc

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• Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

  Lauren Groff

  Passion, India, Spain

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• 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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• People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

  Mike Rowe

  Careers, People, Proud

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• The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

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• In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Helping, Desperation, Outburst

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• The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Aphorism, Known

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.7, Arcade Publishing

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• Praise causes the presence of the Lord to come into our midst. Even though God is omniscient, He manifests His authority and rule in our environment when we praise Him. When we praise, God comes in and leads us forth... He does not just visit us, but He abides and aligns Himself with us to walk with us into the path that He has chosen for us.

  Chuck Pierce

  Doe, Path, Causes

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• When you come from your heart in the midst of your self and in your life, you’ll be like a salmon turning and going upstream. You’ll be going against the stream. You’ll be going against what your self is like. In that way, you are training your self, your conditioning and the streams of your self.

  John de Ruiter

  Heart, Self, Training

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• I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Destruction, Found

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.82, A&C Black

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• The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers, that is, in principle, of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good.

  Allan Bloom

  Real, Men, Self

  "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, p. 381, 1987.

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• A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Teeth, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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