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In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
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''Revolution'' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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Before bringing a request to the Lord, it's a good idea to ask: If God granted this request, would it bring glory to him? Would it advance his kingdom? Would it help people? Would it help me to grow spiritually?
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Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
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Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
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Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
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Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.
Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays (2017) 115 -
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
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Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
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Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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