Quotes about Wish
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
— Phillips Brooks
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.
— Richard Wurmbrand
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.
— Kevin Hart
Maybe she will make our wishes come true before we burn her.
— Erica Jong
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.
— Marianne Williamson
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.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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?
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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.
— Max Lucado
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
— Phillips Brooks
Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.
— Billy Graham
In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.
— St. Therese of Lisieux