Troubled Waters Quotes

• God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.

  LeCrae

  Water, Sometimes, Trouble

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• Sail on silver girl
  Sail on by
  Your time has come to shine
  All your dreams are on their way
  See how they shine
  Oh, if you need a friend
  I'm sailing right behind.

  Paul Simon

  Girl, Dream, Shining

  "Song: 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'". 1970.

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• I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  God, Water, Darkness

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• If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Bridges, Water, Despair

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Water, Depth, Obscurity

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• What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Life, Pain, Passion

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt
  Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on
  The troubled waters of a lake,
  'Twill form in circles round succeeding round;
  Each wider than the first.

  George Colman the Elder

  Lakes, Circles, Water

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• Be very careful to retain peace of heart, because Satan casts his lines in troubled waters.

  Paul of the Cross

  Heart, Water, Lines

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• There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Life, Perseverance, Men

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• When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years.

  Judy Collins

  Heart, Years, Water

  Judy Collins (2011). “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music”, p.4, Crown Archetype

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• The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

  William J. Clinton

  Bridges, Water, Growth

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Humans have real superpowers and when I see my dad, and saw my dad, work with communities and help people change viewpoints, and lead people in healing and guide them through troubled waters in their lives, that represents to me a real world wizard - if you want to look at it with prismatic eyes. That's what they're talking about you read about a magician.

  Guillermo E. Brown

  Dad, Real, Healing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

  William J. Clinton

  Bridges, People, Water

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• ...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Teaching, Home, College

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• The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Fall, Yellow, Water

  1865 On seeing Niagara Falls for the first time. My Diary in America in theMidst ofWar.

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• To fish in troubled waters.

  Matthew Henry

  Fishing, Water, Fishes

  Matthew Henry (1828). “Communicant's Companion”, p.143

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• Best fishing in troubled waters.

  John Harington

  Fishing, Water

  "Orlando Furioso". 1591.

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• We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

  Karen Mills

  Giving, Water, Want

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• I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Nice, Thinking

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