“Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.” IfsLifeGivingHas BeensAgeLastsLife IsDesireLeftWishYouthBlessingSurpriseEnjoymentMidstMore TimeLife Is ShortFeverTediousFuture Time Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.” DoeCareBlessingFortuneTake CareMidstUngrateful Book:The Epigrams of Martial Source: The Epigrams of Martial
“Often, in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh vision of who He is.” RealProblemVisionBlessingMidst Book:The Vision of His Glory Source: The Vision of His Glory
“The first breach was in My Garden, and because you were willing to stand in the coldness that that breach had caused from last season, I now am producing blessings in your midst. Now the next breach is linked with the provision that needs to be unlocked. Therefore, all God-robbing spirits will be broken.” NeedsFirstsLastsSpiritNextWillingBrokenBlessingGardenSeasonsMidstLinkedProvisionBreachRobbingColdness Author:Chuck Pierce
“Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.” MenMindProblemFormScienceOrderCulturePoliticsInterestJusticeForgetFateMankindCreationBlessingDiversityConcernLaborOrganizationSocial JusticeChiefsCurseMidstGoodsNever ForgetEndeavorEquationsDistributionDiagramsApplied ScienceUnsolved Problems Author:Albert Einstein
“The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.” GivingReligiousExpressionBlessingFlowArmyPreparedForgottenSurrenderMidstRighteousPrincipalCan NotJoyousInsurgentEvacuationRichmond Book:Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln Source: Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln
“The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.” MenWorldFirstsSeemsChristianBeautifulPoorRichBlessingMiserySlaveChristian LifeMidstParadoxRich ManChastisementFreemanHappy Man Author:Richard Sibbes