Quotes on Oar

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.