Quotes on Grants

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

It is the Paraclete Spirit, the "Comforter", who grants us the courage to take to the streets of the world, bringing the Gospel! The Holy Spirit makes us look to the horizon and drive us to the very outskirts of existence in order to proclaim life in Jesus Christ. Let us ask ourselves: do we tend to stay closed in on ourselves, on our group, or do we let the Holy Spirit open us to mission?

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From this atomic waste the people of Nagasaki confront the world and cry out: No more war! Let us follow the commandment of love and work together. The people of Nagasaki prostrate themselves before God and pray: Grant that Nagasaki may be the last atomic wilderness in the history of the world.

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.