Midst Quotes - Page 32

• He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Long, Laughing, Finding Yourself

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grace, Needs, Earth

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.38, SCM Press

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• What’s a little calming distraction for your girlfriend in the midst of world entertainment domination?” “I’d stop the world from spinning for you.” That silly line oddly touched me. “I love you.” “Liked that one, did you?

  Sylvia Day

  Girlfriend, Silly, Love You

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.650, Penguin

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• The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong — for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

  Orson Scott Card

  Blow, Enemy, Insane

  "Ender's Shadow". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1999.

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• A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Knowing, Needs

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• How many times have I told you, Magnus? Behave professionaly in a professional setting. Which means no being rude to Nephilim, and also no getting attached to Nephilim." "I never get attached to Nephilim!" Magnus protested. Ragnor coughed, and in the midst of the cough said something that sounded like "blerondale." "Well," said Magnus. "Hardly ever.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Rude, Nephilim

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• At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is, in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his protecting arm.

  Solomon Northup

  Heart, Cutting, Men

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• That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.

  Donna Tartt

  Heart, Mean, Eye

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• The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

  Marya Mannes

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Space

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• The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

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• So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.

  Herman Melville

  Hope, Heart, Cutting

  Herman Melville, General Press (2016). “Moby Dick”, p.242, GENERAL PRESS

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• In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

  George MacDonald

  Life, Men, Reality

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13002, Delphi Classics

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• Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Men, Two

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• In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

  Charlie Haden

  Music, Thinking, Creating

  FaceBook post by Charlie Haden from Feb 15, 2015

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• The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods . . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Peace, Hate, War

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• Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Years, Relief

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 12

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• A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Spiritual, Men, Sea

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• Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

  Ding Ling

  Happiness, Happy, Struggle

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• To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Spiritual, Perfect, Composure

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• I, God, am in your midst. Whoever knows me can never fall. Not in the heights, nor in the depths, nor in the breadths. For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Spiritual, Fall, Evil

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• A pauper in the midst of wealth.

  Horace

  Wealth

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty.

  Richard Leakey

  Creativity, Science, Years

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• There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Age, Unions, Ghost

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• Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

  Alexander Pope

  Atheist, Children, Dark

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.119

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• The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Motivational, Art

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1951). “My Sister and I”, Olympia Press

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