From day to day, from moment to moment, she increased so much this twofold plenitude that she attained an immense and inconceivable degree of grace. So much so, that the Almighty made her the sole custodian of his treasures and the sole dispenser of his graces. She can now ennoble, exalt and enrich all she chooses. She can lead them along the narrow path to heaven and guide them through the narrow gate to life. She can give a royal throne, sceptre and crown to whom she wishes.
There is who loves you quietly, and respects you quietly, and wishes you privately, and walks away when he sees you busy with someone other than him, and his ego restrains him from getting near you, and contents himself with the love for the sake of love
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.
You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
He wasted his wishes on wishing.
No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.
This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
Weep for the lives your wishes never led.
she hurriedly wipes her eyes so that he can see the girl he wishes.
Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.
Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.
There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.