Stranded Quotes

“Desire is the foundation of our greatness. Without it, we are stranded; we cannot go anywhere. You won't get, what you don't eagerly desire.”

“You can’t lead people to where you’ve not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!”

“No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I’ve been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet.”

“Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?”

“Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.”

“If you were stranded in the ocean in a small boat with a paddle, I’d tell you to pray to God, but row for the shore!”

“It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world”

“sometimes we need the world and all the people on her to abandon us so we can turn to the One who will never leave us stranded.”

“I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.”