Quotes by granted

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Voltaire
French writer and philosopher (ps. of François Marie Arouet) 1694-1778

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In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Bill Hybels
American church figure and author 1951-

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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.
Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
Pietro Aretino
Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist

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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.
Wyndham Lewis
British painter and author 1882-1957

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''Revolution'' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
Elizabeth Bowen
Anglo-Irish Novelist 1899-1973

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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.
Bill Hybels
American church figure and author 1951-

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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?
Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
Beck
American musician, singer and songwriter 1970-

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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.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
American psychologist, Television and Radio Personality 1927-

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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.
Blaise Pascal
French physicist, mathematician and philosopher 1623-1662

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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.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet and playwright, winner Nobel Prize in Literature 1930-2017

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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.
John Gay
British playwright and poet 1688-1732

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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.
A. W. Tozer
American Christian pastor, preacher and author 1897-1963

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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.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Pools journalist 1932-

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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.
Audre Lorde
American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil 1934-1992

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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
Aldous Huxley
English writer 1894-1963

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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.