Quotes About Midst

#1. Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

Aesop

#2. Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. But the point is that trying to make things better sometimes makes us better, too. The point is I'm trying to create good things in the midst of the bad. Grief or no grief. And in my case, it's still somewhere in between.

Emery Lord

#4. A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.

D.T. Suzuki

#5. Dandelion Wine is nothing if it is not the boy-hid-in-the-man playing in the fields of the Lord on the green grass of other Augusts in the midst of starting to grow up, grow old, and sense darkness waiting under the trees to seed the blood. I

Ray Bradbury

#6. The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.

Ramana Maharshi

#7. In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.

Thomas Malory

#8. ...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.

Anne Fadiman

#9. He waited, listening with deep enjoyment, for the end of the sonata. In the still, twilit corridor it sounded so lonely and unworldly, and so brave and innocent also, both childlike and superior, as all good music must in the midst of the unredeemed muteness of the world.

Hermann Hesse

#10. Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know, it is no longer in our midst.

Irshad Manji

#11. He had found the one calm place in the midst of the storm, a quiet voice calling him to earth.

Jerzy Kosinski

#12. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison

#13. To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of poverty requires power, but whoever acquires this power becomes a mastermind. That person can conquer fate and can have what he or she wants.

Wallace D. Wattles

#14. I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.

Eugene Delacroix

#15. Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage.

Jocelyn Murray

#16. Mark, Reader, my cry! Bend thy thoughts on the Sky,
And in midst of prosperity, know thou may'st die.
While the great Loom of God works in darkness above,
And our trials here below are but threads of His Love.

Thomas Pynchon

#17. Patience is produced in the midst of storms; it blossoms under the intense pressures of the storms.

E'yen A. Gardner

#18. The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.

John Kasich

#19. People could play blindness and deafness game when it comes to your work and achievements. But your work will alway be a mega picture in their midst and your words will always be your voice that will never depart from their ears.

Euginia Herlihy

#20. An inexhaustible love for him lay concealed in her heart in the midst of continual hatred, jealousy, and contempt. She

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.

T.D. Jakes

#22. You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life

Dainin Katagiri

#23. When God does not answer your prayers, step back and wait. He is giving you an opportunity to trust Him in the midst of the uncertainty and ambiguity you may be feeling.

Stormie O'martian

#24. Though in midst of life we be
Snares of death surround us.

Martin Luther

#25. In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.

Samuel Beckett

#26. I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.

Kiera Van Gelder

#27. In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

#28. [M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of suffering, and which keeps good servants of God in fear when they have nothing to suffer!

Vincent De Paul

#29. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

Swami Satchidananda

#30. 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

#31. Even so, in the midst of this complicated love, there is a holy union.

Lorna Jane Cook

#32. There is a fear of immorality and disease in our midst. We don't like to be reminded of such things so close to home. We feel guilty that it happens while we are perfectly well and comfortable ourselves. Africa is too far away to be our fault.

Anne Perry

#33. We are in a battle this side of heaven, there's no doubt about it. But in the midst of that battl the church has to realize that people are not the enemy; people are the prize.

Britt Merrick

#34. [Jesus] is the event of the unity of life and death for the sake of life. Thus he is the event of a still greater selflessness in the midst of such great selfrelatedness. That is how he is God.

Eberhard Jungel

#35. New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

Pharoahe Monch

#36. Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another
killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities.

John Muir

#37. I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

Walt Whitman

#38. 5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

Anonymous

#39. The people come to Jesus, not because they recognized his dignity and function but because it is rumored that a miracle worker has come in their midst. Jesus had come to preach repentance and the nearness of the kingdom but the people think only of relief from pain and affliction.

William L. Lane

#40. Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Steve Martin

#41. Learning to pray doesn't offer us a less busy life; it offers us a less busy heart. In the midst of outer busyness

Paul E. Miller

#42. Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.

Horace

#43. But in the midst of our greatest pains we can find comfort and encouragement in the fact that others with similar struggles have successfully gone before us.

Seth Adam Smith

#44. Feares are divided in the midst.

George Herbert

#45. Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

Thomas Hood

#46. Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

Jennifer Capriati

#47. Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world, even in the midst of tragedy.

Jim Rohn

#48. Having your spiritual radar up in constant anticipation of His presence- even in the midst of the joyful chaos and regular rhythms of your everyday living- is paramount in hearing God, because sometimes the place and manner you find Him is the least spectacular you'd expect.

Priscilla Shirer

#49. And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

John F. Kerry

#50. Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Henry Drummond

#51. More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose. It is the fuel that powers persistence.

John C. Maxwell

#52. Order is the cipher by which Mind speaks to mind in the midst of chaos.

Ronald Knox

#53. But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

Margaret Mitchell

#54. In the midst of chaos I draw closer to God. I've learned to trust in him no matter what. I'm so thankful for the lessons he has and will teach me. Even when I don't always get it the first time.

Amanda Penland

#55. It's awful, ins't it, how I remember crap like that? Tiny, insignificant details in the midst of a massive disaster.

Robyn Schneider

#56. It is here that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin.

Tiffany Reisz

#57. In the midst of a crowd, an individual's layers of restraint peel away, revealing potentially barbaric instincts and a susceptibility to a crowd contagion.

Alexandra Robbins

#58. Abiding and obeying gives our lives purpose because it is in the midst of these activities that God works in and through us to do His work.

Wendy Blight

#59. The vision had been of him naked and Butch wrapped around him, the two of them high up in the sky, entwined in the midst of a cold wind. Jesus Christ, he was deranged. Deranged and perverted. "Look, I'll come at sundown and hit you with a little hand action." "Good. That always helps.

J.R. Ward

#60. I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

Martin Luther

#61. It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We are in want of a terrible political fever, to carry off our foul humors.

Madame Roland

#62. I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

Daniel Boone

#63. Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of millennia and the ruins of morbid palaces, he was completely right to assume the triumphant expression of a discoverer.

Peter Sloterdijk

#64. Fear in the midst of the storm is instinctive and beneficial. Fear of a storm that could happen is not. It's an intrusive emotion that can lead us to a greatly diminished life.

David Jeremiah

#65. Seek silence in the midst of the tumult, seek solitude in the masses, light in the midst of darkness; find forgetfulness in injury, victory in the midst of despondence, and courage in the midst of alarm, resistance in the midst of temptation, peace in the midst of war.

Michael Molinos

#66. Albert Camus wrote, In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Martha N. Beck

#67. I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.

Regina Doman

#68. I hate him for instilling awful things in my memory and somehow making me grieve for him in the midst of all the awful. I don't want to grieve over his loss. I want to rejoice in it, but it's just not in me.

Colleen Hoover

#69. People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#70. When those dreams in that unreachable future suddenly rise up around you, how can you not be blinded to their truths? All at once, it is here. All at once, you are living in its very midst. Why then must you seek to pull away? He

Steven Erikson

#71. He was finally understanding that every bit of it had been real! He had been calm in the midst of the mob because he knew he wasn't going to die on Earth.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#72. In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer ...

Leo Tolstoy

#73. A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.

John Stuart Mill

#74. In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with pleasure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground.

Mary Shelley

#75. You will not experience dramatic change in your struggle as long as you use accountability to describe your sins instead of declaring your need for help in the midst of temptation.

Heath Lambert

#76. All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has exploded in their midst, piercing every possible soft point of flesh-from earlobes and nostrils to eyebrows, lips, and tongues-with metal studs and rings.

Jonathan Tropper

#77. It's laughter that lubricates our irritations, that releases our tensions, that feeds our joy ... it's the laughter that helps keep things warm and joyful even in the midst of pain.

Emilie Barnes

#78. The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primaevl solitude would be like talking in church.

Jim Fergus

#79. It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#80. A cello on a winter night in the midst of a frozen city - that was what his voice sounded like.

Tiffany Reisz

#81. A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

Michael Medved

#82. If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Ramakrishna

#83. Safety and kept them sane in the midst of utter chaos.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#84. In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#85. In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.

Zhuangzi

#86. 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

#87. Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution.

Gloria Feldt

#88. Could we have been so much in the midst of life? With such a sense of grand adventure about it all?

Thomas Pynchon

#89. There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.

Sara Teasdale

#90. One who takes shelter of the Supreme Lord has nothing to fear, even in the midst of the greatest calamity.

Anonymous

#91. We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

John Piper

#92. I think that the potential for homegrown terrorist attacks is something that we have to be very concerned about, because, in many respects, it's harder to detect when you have an independent actor who may be living in our midst, in our own communities.

Jeh Johnson

#93. It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.

Simone De Beauvoir

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck.

Todd Stocker

#97. Here he stands before me as he was, in midlife, and perhaps that is why reading them is so painful for me, he wasn't only much more than my feelings for him but infinitely more, a complete and living person in the midst of his life.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#98. The most that any of us can do is to say with Isaiah, as he beheld a vision of God in his holiness, "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!" (Isa. 6:5).

Michael S. Horton

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

Neil Clark Warren

#100. True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

Nancy Leigh DeMoss