Anchors Quotes

• In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Stress, Adversity, Order

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

  David Brinkley

  Matter, Cameras, Sitting

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• To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless.  Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life

  Anodea Judith

  Wind, Wave Of Life, Body

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• What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.

  June Hunt

  Inspirational, Wind, Soul

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• Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Care, Casts

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1201, Delphi Classics

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• Life has a way of testing our anchors and tempting us to drift. Nevertheless, if our anchors are correctly placed in the rock of our Redeemer, they will hold—no matter the force of the wind, the strength of the tide, or the height of the waves.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Rocks, Wind, Height

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• The anchor holds in spite of the storm

  Ray Boltz

  Storm, Spite

  Song: The Anchor Holds, Album: Allegiance

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• Up anchor! Up anchor!
  Set sail and away!
  The ventures of dreamland
  Are thine for a day.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Dream, Venture, Sail

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria

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• Hope gives the heart wings; the
  soul, an anchor.

  Janet Todd

  Heart, Wings, Giving

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• To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

  Emile M. Cioran

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.

  James MacDonald

  Trust, God, Mean

  James MacDonald (2010). “10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever”, p.158, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.

  Debby Ryan

  Toss

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Tourism, Arriving

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Abiding Faith, Confusion, Conflict

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• To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Sea

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.248, Best Books on

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• the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

  Saul Williams

  Men, Overboard, Thrown

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

  Nhat Hanh

  Walking Meditation, Sky, Breathing

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2016

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• The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.

  R. C. Sproul

  Promise, Today, Tomorrow

  Twitter post from May 02, 2016

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• You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need.

  Max Lucado

  Love Is, Heaven, Grace

  Max Lucado (2009). “Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

  Brand Blanshard

  Cutting, Crafts, May

  Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.47, Routledge

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• Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

  Epictetus

  Life, Hope, Niece

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sea, Investing, Nonsense

  Affluent Society (1958) ch. 11

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• Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Hope, Encouragement, Storm

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Hope Again: When Life Hurts and Dreams Fade”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

  Frederick Douglass

  Party, Men, Safety

  Frederick Douglass' letter to men from Petersburg, Virginia (in the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress), August 15, 1888.

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• A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Book, Funny Drinking, Gin And Tonic

  "Summer Reading; Reading And Nothingness, Of Proust In The Summer Sun" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 2, 1985.

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