Midst Quotes
841 Midst quotes by 613 unique authors
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Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.
— Vincent de Paul
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[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…
— Vincent de Paul
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...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs
— Vincent de Paul
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Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.
— Harlan Ellison
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The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of…
— Susan Sontag
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The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.
— June Hunt
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Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when…
— Lauren Groff
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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
— Philip Yancey
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The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin and bear it' in the…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us.
— Francis Chan
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The Sessions becomes a dance of joy in the midst of severe challenge, and a movie with a light spirit that lifts a tale of…
— Lisa Schwarzbaum
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How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting for words to…
— Susan L. Taylor
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Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to…
— Martin E. Marty
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There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the…
— Michelangelo
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Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.
— Elisabeth Elliot
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People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the…
— Mike Rowe
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... in the midst of death life persists ...
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
— Emile M. Cioran
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When you come from your heart in the midst of your self and in your life, you’ll be like a salmon turning and going upstream.…
— John de Ruiter
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I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under…
— Mahatma Gandhi
Who Wrote These Midst Quotes
613 authors contributed a total of 841 Midst Quotes, led by these top contributors: