Midst Quotes - Page 23

• In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

  Christina Baldwin

  Voice, Self, Noise

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.14, New World Library

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• The first step of gratitude is to see the gift...if you are in the middle of difficulties and problems, how can you feel gratitude? You've got to fight to find the gift even in the difficulty...when you shift your perspective from the perspective of the mind because life will never make sense to your mind...mind is very logical and life is not. In order for life to make sense you've got to be out of your mind and you've got to be into your soul. When you begin to see life from the perspective of your soul then even in the midst of the worst of it you can see the gift.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Gratitude, Fighting, Order

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• I invite all to trust in the merits and in the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Through His atoning sacrifice, we can gain the courage to win all the wars of our time, even in the midst of our difficulties, challenges, and temptations. Let us trust in His #‎ love and power to save.

  Ulisses Soares

  Jesus, War, Sacrifice

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• One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.

  Thomas Merton

  Fall, Humility, Sky

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• Sometimes we need to open our eyes wide and intentionally look for Jesus, in the midst of our own worlds.

  Brandon Heath

  Jesus, Eye, Needs

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• The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.

  Nick Turse

  Mistake, Boys, Apples

  Nick Turse (2013). “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam”, p.256, Macmillan

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• No work of art is more important than the Christian's life, and every Christian is called to be an artist in this sense... The Christian's life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, Important

  Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

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• For what is it that angels do? They bring us good news. They open our eyes to moments of wonder, to lovely possibilities, to exemplary people, to the idea that God is here in our midst. They lift our hearts and give us wings.

  Joan Anderson

  Eye, Angel, Heart

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• I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Night, Men

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• For it is said, "You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him," that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.

  Maimonides

  Fall, Community, Needs

  "Mishneh Torah". Book by Maimonides, Book 7 (Sefer Zera'im "Seeds"), Treatise 2 (Mattenot Aniyiim "Laws of obligatory gifts to the poor"), Chapter (Perek) 10, Halacha 7,

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• We are neither this way nor that; we are a body which is in the midst of change and evaporating.  We are timeless, thousands of years old, and involved with processes which go beyond our present identity.  This gives us an eternal feeling, but one which is realizable right here in the moment.

  Arnold Mindell

  Years, Giving, Feelings

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• Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because beefsteak and coffee are not prepared for her and exactly to her taste, than any man ever had or ever can have during the present stage of human evolution.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Mother, Coffee, Nursing

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• Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Mean, Views

  Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Soul, Despair, New Life

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• God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His grace by preserving their souls in the midst of the most unpromising environments. His saints are found in very unlikely places.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Sight, People, Grace

  Arthur W. Pink (2016). “The Life of Elijah”, p.127, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

  Hans Kung

  God, Religious, Suffering

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• Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination.

  John Stuart Mill

  Past, Infinite Time, Space

  Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism "The Utility of Religion" (1874)

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• Those who desire only the good pleasure of God abide in peace even in the midst of failure, for God has not told us that He requires success of us.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Desire, Pleasure

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• In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.

  Neil Clark Warren

  Listening, Gains, Conflict

  Neil Clark Warren (1998). “The Triumphant Marriage: 100 Extremely Successful Couples Reveal Their Secrets”, Focus on the Family Pub

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• The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.

  Huineng

  Stars, Fall, Moon

  Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”

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• So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Perspective, Temptation, World

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• Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution.

  Gloria Feldt

  Revolution, Unfinished

  Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.144, Seal Press

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• I believe that movements start when individuals who feel very isolated and very alone in the midst of an alien culture, come in touch with something life-giving in the midst of a death-dealing situation. They make one of the most basic decisions a human being can make, which I have come to call the decision to live "divided no more," the decision to no longer act differently on the outside than one knows one's truth to be on the inside

  Parker J. Palmer

  Believe, Giving, Decision

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• What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Past, Magic, Needs

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• If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Would Be, Belief, Affair

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