Quotes About Wish

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

There's no prayer like desire.

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

Not what we wish but what we need Oh! let your grace supply The good unasked in mercy grant The ill though asked deny.

God answers prayer with certainty. Wish fulfillment is something else.

Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

But when they seldom come, they wished for come.

You do as chapmen do,Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy.

I wish you joy of the worm.

O! for a horse with wings!

When you do dance, I wish youA wave o' the sea, that you might ever doNothing but that.

I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.