Deep Water Quotes:

God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]

- John H Aughey

topic: Mean, Men, Deep Water, Future Happiness

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

- Kate Tempest

source: "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.

topic: Deep Water, Water, Know How

Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most writers are just trying to pay the bills, like anyone else - Stephanie Meyers is the literary equivalent of a television evangelist. Fork over twenty bucks and she'll help you forget your troubles for a while. I certainly don't fault her for her success, but I hope she has no illusions about the quality of her craft or the longevity of her efforts.

- Kevin Keck

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Mean, Deep Water, Effort

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens, Matty Groves (2004). “The Chimes”, p.65, Quiet River Press LLC

topic: Giving Up, Deep Water, Sea, Cold Weather, Brooding

You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Deep Water, Water, Knowing God

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Reflection, Hands, Deep Water

To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

- Gaston Bachelard

source: "Water and Dreams". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1942.

topic: Destiny, Men, Deep Water

The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Simple, Deep Water, Suffering, Shamanism, Unnecessary Suffering

This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Breathing, Keys, Deep Water, Psilocybin

A great ship asks deep water.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

topic: Greatness, Deep Water, Ships

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.

- George MacDonald

source: George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.12942, e-artnow

topic: War, Men, Deep Water

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

- Martha Beck

topic: Thinking, Deep Water, Truth Is, You Think You Know

God of deep waters and infinite riches, challenge me to go where I fear, to do what is difficult and what I thought could never be done. Push me to go to the deep waters of life and cast my net wide, for I put all my hope, trust and faith in you.

- Matthew Kelly

source: Matthew Kelly (2017). “Rediscover Lent”, p.44, BookBaby

topic: Deep Water, Water Of Life, Challenges, Trust And Faith

When I get in deep water, I prefer to announce that I'm in over my head.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Deep Water, Water

In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Wise, Deep Water, Brave, Shallow Water

Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith (Jr.) (1911). “The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Containing the Revelations Given to Joseph Smith, Jun., the Prophet, for the Building Up of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days”

topic: Deep Water, Water, Swim

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

topic: Deep Water, Water, Swim

The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.

- Donald Miller

source: Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.87, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Beautiful, Real, Deep Water, Profane

Actually, I was having dinner with Michael [Stipe, of R.E.M.] when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

- Billy Corgan

source: Icon Magazine, April 1998.

topic: Kids, Deep Water, Albums

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

- William Faulkner

source: William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.82, Modern Library

topic: Lonely, Deep Water, Wind, Murmuring

There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Men, Deep Water, Sea

Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

- Sarah Palin

source: "Extreme Enviros: Drill, Baby, Drill in ANWR – Now Do You Get It?". www.facebook.com. June 2, 2010.

topic: Country, Lying, Deep Water, Shallow Water, Catching Up

The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.

- Laozi

topic: Deep Water, Taoism, States, Weaponry