"Oh, I wish that God had not given……" — Johanna Spyri
"Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought."
More Given Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help… — Rodney Atkins
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to… — Chinua Achebe
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by… — Saint Augustine
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if… — Saint Augustine
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not… — Edward Bach
- You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have… — Richard Bach