#prayed

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#face #gauntlet #gift #god #our

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#poor #prayed #rain #sailors #shepherds

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from. ↗

— Thomas Hearns

#came #god #i #i came #knew

Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot! ↗

— June Carter Cash

#cried #had #hurting #i #inside

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#digestion #forgot #good #good digestion #i

I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#example #gives #i #i believe #just

I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness. ↗

— Princess Margaret

#concern #constantly #deeply #grateful #happiness

I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#any #been #could #count #hoped

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke. ↗

— Brion James

#because #broke #business #called #go

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#else #everything #knowledge #like #more