In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone. . . This is called solitude in public. . . During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell. . . You can carry it wherever you go.
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies
Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.
Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.
Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.
The world is not looking for more doctrinal proof of the reality of God! It is not looking for greater proof of the resurrection or better arguments about creation. The world is looking for Christians who can stand up to every crisis, fear, trouble and difficulty and remain calm and at rest in the midst of it all. The world needs to see God's children trusting wholly in their Lord.
Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.
Staying present and staying myself in the midst of others is important.
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea.
In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find 'the ultimate questioner' - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.
We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.
The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.
L'Arche is not a service institution or a group home. It is a community that exists to reveal God's love. Our people are given to the world to tell others about peace and forgiveness and celebration, to make them aware that in the midst of their brokenness, there is joy; in the midst of their wounded nature, there is healing.
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.
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.