Quotes about Wish

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

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.

The language of love and the language of seduction are the same. The one who wishes a girl for a wife and the one who wishes her for only a night both say the words, "I love you." Jesus has told us to discern between the language of seduction and the language of love, and to know the wolves clad in sheepskin from the real sheep.

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

Maybe she will make our wishes come true before we burn her.

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.