Drowning Quote by Thomas Yellowtail

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

— William Sloane Coffin

God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

— Anonymous

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

— Eric Hoffer

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

— Charlie Munger

We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit thatsheds and showers actions, countless, endles

— Anonymous

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

— Anna Kamienska

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes…

— Herman Melville

Sometimes God will leave us in trouble waters ; Not for us to drown, but only for us to learn how to swim.

— Anonymous

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in…

— St. Jerome