Midst Quotes - Page 8

• Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Marriage, Passion, Problem

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• No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

  Anton Walbrook

  War, People, History

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world. All genuine art seeks the spirit. Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory - disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness. If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

  Rudolf Steiner (1964). “The arts and their mission”

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• He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

  Vikram Sarabhai

  Noise, Achieve, Great Things

  Outlook India, August 19, 2002.

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• There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.

  Walther Rathenau

  Men, Race, Self

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• If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive of this Incarnation as something which is still present and which will remain present for all future time. ... What happens in the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist is something for which all religions of mankind have exressed longing, dimly sensed was coming, and as a rule even prefigured- the physical presence of the divine Logos made man, and the presence of his sacrificial death, in the midst of the congregation celebrating the mysteries.

  Josef Pieper

  Men, Justice, Logos

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• I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.

  Zainab Salbi

  Motivation, War, Inspiration

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• There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Taken, Meals, Should

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• Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

  Del Close

  Laughter, Tragedy, Possibility

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• To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Suffering, World, God's Will

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• The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Enemy, Kingdoms

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

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• If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Lonely, Perfect, Warfare

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• The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.

  Ann Voskamp

  Prayer, Thinking, Soul

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• I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

  Bertice Berry

  Long Ago, World, Down And

  Bertice Berry (2002). “Jim and Louella's Homemade Heart-Fix Remedy”, p.24, Broadway Books

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• Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.

  Beth Moore

  Pain, Heart, Soul

  Beth Moore (2008). “To Live Is Christ”, p.80, B&H Publishing Group

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• You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

  Jack Kerouac

  Reality, Identity, Chaos

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• Integrate the unseen of what you first are in the midst of all things seen.

  John de Ruiter

  Unseen, Firsts, Integrating

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• Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Character, Compassion

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• To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Heart, World, Fixing

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• When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Disappointment, Joy, Doubt

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• In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Adventure, Soul

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• You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

  Richard Bach

  Knowing, Games, Play

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• In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and whenever this happens, I go with it. That's what inspiration is. You don't get it from the gods. You make it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Believe, Inspiration, Cynical

  "How to believe in yourself - even if you sometimes don't" by Jeffrey Eugenides, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2012.

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• In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Order, Constant, Universe

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• This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.

  David Brooks

  Love Is, Emotional, Order

  "Social Animal". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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