People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before.
The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered.
There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.
Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.
"How does one grow up?" I asked a friend. She answered, "By thinking!"
There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.
Love doesn't need to be answered, It just quietly and freely gives.
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
Not all questions can be answered.
The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.
Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.
I envision some years from now that the majority of search queries will be answered without you actually asking. It'll just know this is something that you're going to want to see.
Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.
Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.
Papa, do you like my new friend?" Frances Catherine asked when they were halfway across the field. "I surely do. " "Can I keep her?" "For the love of. . . No, you can't keep her. She isn't a puppy. You can be her friend, though," he hastily added before his daughter could argue with him. "Forever, papa?" She 'd asked her father that question, but Judith answered her. "Forever," she shyly whispered. Frances Catherine reached across her father's chest to take hold of Judith's hand. "Forever," she pledged.