Quotes about Lost
The night is dark, and I am far from home.
- John Henry Newman
What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?" She didn't know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. It was all over. She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost.
- Jack Kerouac
Well, now you know me. You know I don't have close relationships with anybody any more - I don't know what to do with these things. I hold things in my hand like pieces of crap and don't know where to put it down.
- Jack Kerouac
The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.
- Charles Spurgeon
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
- Marianne Williamson
No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.
- Coco Chanel
In the Gospels, being a sinner means being lost ... There is no way for man to escape the condition of being lost ... The lost can only be sought and found.
- GC Berkouwer
the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain (i.e. even while living) in the congregation of the dead.
- Herman Melville
Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him. But there is so often a forsaking the ways of the Lord in the hour of trial, and thus the food of faith, the means whereby our faith may be increased, is lost.
- George Muller
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.
- Charles Spurgeon