Midst Quotes
841 Midst quotes by 613 unique authors
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A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.
— Charles Spurgeon
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In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her…
— Louisa May Alcott
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The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you…
— Sarah Dessen
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We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in…
— Swami Satchidananda
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It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that…
— Alice Sebold
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Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will…
— Francois Fenelon
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In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence…
— Alejo Carpentier
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Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed,…
— John Milton
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The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence…
— Brennan Manning
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She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous,…
— Margaret Atwood
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I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
— Honore de Balzac
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Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in…
— Frederick Buechner
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As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society…
— William Trevor
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The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?
— Christine Feehan
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I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the…
— Pablo Neruda
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...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.
— Catherynne M. Valente
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The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh.…
— William Saroyan
Who Wrote These Midst Quotes
613 authors contributed a total of 841 Midst Quotes, led by these top contributors: