Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.
The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.
We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.
A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
How happy is the Optimist To whom life shows its sunny side His horse may lose, his ship may list, But he always sees the funny side.
A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.
Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.
Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.
It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.
You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.
A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won
Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.