Jacqueline Carey Quotes

It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God

I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.

I fear looking back and wishing I had done things I hadn't.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.

Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

Aretmis gripped her bow. “Let us pray I am wrong.” Can goddesses pray?