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.
In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.
When you care about the culture, you can stop, pause, and say, "Okay, where do I stand in the midst of this all?"
O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.
In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
. . . men. . . who say that there is no one in our times and in our midst who is able to keep the Gospel commandments and become like the holy Fathers? To them the Master rightly says with a loud voice, 'Woe to you scribes and Pharisees (Mt. 23:13)! Woe to you, blind guides of the blind (Mt. 23:16), because you do not enter into the kingdom, and you hinder those who wish to enter' (Mt. 23:13).
Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.
We’re in the midst of a boom in home-based businesses, and it shows no sign of slowing.
Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with spirit refreshed, and with a renewed sense of power. I hear a voice in the silences, and become increasingly aware that it is the voice of God.
For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. [. . . ] Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.
In the midst of life, we are in death.
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 is in the midst of the flame with her.
Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.