Midst Quotes - Page 21

• For me personally Cuba has been a healing state. When I first got here I had no sense that I had to heal or anything. When you're struggling for your life and you're in the midst of things, you don't feel all the blows.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Healing, Blow

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• Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the Lord, Who has found you worthy to suffer for Him, by struggling against the subtlety of the serpent, and to be wounded for Him at every hour; for had you not lived piously, and endeavored to become united to God, the enemy would not have attacked and tormented you.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Struggle, Fighting

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• Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The only way we can have personal victory in the midst of these flying arrows raining down on us is to call upon the Lord for help. It is His strength, supplied to us in our weakness, that makes victory after victory possible.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Encouragement, Religious, Rain

  Edith Schaeffer (1993). “Affliction”, p.27, Baker Books

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• I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, States, Drunkards

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.155, Rajpal & Sons

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• The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Genius, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Have unconditional love to your children no matter what happens. Give them time even in the midst of this busy life - be one on one with them.

  Jennie Finch

  Children, Unconditional Love, Giving

  "Q&A: Olympic Gold Medalist (and Mom) Jennie Finch". Interview with Chanel Parks, www.womansday.com. June 5, 2012.

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• We live in the midst of a creation that is groaning.

  Rob Bell

  Creation, Groaning

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• It's important for me to try to find new ways to express myself, but at the same time, have integrity, and still be me, and not lose myself in the midst of this crazy Rap that I'm in. It's important, it's critical, to just try things out. I think, mainly, it's just me being fearless, and not being afraid to conquer anything that comes in my path, I guess.

  Fashawn

  Integrity, Crazy, Rap

  "Gunplay: Going Against the Grain". Interview with Jake Paine, crazyhood.com. May 19, 2018.

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• In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Recovery, Common Humanity

  Remarks by the President on the Situation in Japan, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 17, 2011.

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• What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.

  Jakob Bohme

  Spiritual, Writing, Triumph

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• To me, we are in the midst of such broad-scale destruction, both psychically and physically, that the only thing that can threaten the grip, loosen the hold, of economism, I believe, is a discussion of the sacred born out of our regard and compassion and intelligence for the earth and the creatures on the earth.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Compassion, Earth

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Phases, Littles

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

  William Ellery Channing

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• In the midst of all this turmoil and destruction, the Latter-day Saints should dwell in peace and safety. This they may do if they will be honest with themselves, with their fellowmen, and with their God.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Honesty, Safety, Saint

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1973). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

  John Adams

  Liberty, Revolution, Unexpected

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.391

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• To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Life, Men, Miracle

  The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying Ch. 1, Sect. 1

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• Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Pain, Hands

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous”, p.525

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• The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.

  Eric Burns

  Home, Technology, Irrelevance

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• The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

  Bill Johnson

  Mystery, Revelations, Walks

  Bill Johnson (2011). “A Life of Miracles: 365-Day Guide to Prayer and Miracles”, p.270, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

  John Eldredge

  Design, Would Be, Roles

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul:  complacency, comfort, and ignorance.  I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.

  Katie Davis

  Running, Jesus, Ignorance

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• We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

  John Adams

  Revolution, Unexpected, Remarkable

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.223

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• We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it.

  William Law

  God, Reality, Keys

  William Law (1836). “Extracts from The spirit of prayer”, p.2

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• But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

  Lord Byron

  Tired, Men, World

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom
  to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other
  flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Sweet, Spring

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1835). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.12

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