Top 100 Grant Me Quotes
#1. God, help me. Help me to be wise and full of courage and sound judgment. Harden my heart to the sights that I must see so soon again, grant me only the power to think clearly, boldly, resolutely, no matter how unnerving the peril. Let me not fail them.
Anton Myrer
#2. You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity.
Frederick The Great
#3. Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.
Rabindranath Tagore
#5. Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
he courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#6. I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need.
Alistair Begg
#7. God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Ron Sims
#8. O grant me a house by the beach of a bay,
Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play
With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers!
And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray,
For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.
Andrew Lang
#9. My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
Pindar
#10. The steel kettle shone, a slow furl of steam at its spout, vaguely suggestive of genie and lamp. Oh, grant me a wish, just the one.
John Banville
#11. If I am inclined to doubt, steady my faith; if I am tempted, make me strong to resist; if I should miss the mark, give me courage to try again. Guide me with the light of truth and grant me wisdom by which I may understand the answer to my prayer.
Ronie Kendig
#12. Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Thomas Aquinas
#13. Grant me courage to serve others;
For in service there is true life.
Cesar Chavez
#14. Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important, said Anne severely
L.M. Montgomery
#15. Then, dear Mamma, I hope you will grant me the first request I make to you, as Queen. Let me be by myself for an hour.
Queen Victoria
#16. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the Serenity Prayer.
Gillian Flynn
#17. If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.
Mark Salzman
#18. Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
Alexander Pope
#19. Janaka gave his daughters to the sons of Dashratha, saying, 'I give you Lakshmi, wealth, who will bring you pleasure and prosperity. Grant me Saraswati, wisdom. Let me learn the joy of letting go.' This ritual came to be known as kanya-daan,
Devdutt Pattanaik
#20. Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh, Lord! Grant me a hundred births inIndia. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Motherland.
Ram Prasad Bismil
#21. When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.
Jimmy Carr
#22. And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede
#24. If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Dag Hammarskjold
#25. God grant me a quick honorable death, Isgrimnur prayed, and never let me be one of those old fools who sits by the campfire telling the young men that things will never be as good as they once were.
Tad Williams
#26. God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often
Stephen King
#27. I hear a thunder in the distance; see a vision of the cross. I feel the pain that was given on a sad day of loss. Only He holds the key: a light to free me from my burden and grant me life eternally.
Scott Stapp
#28. A slightly modified version of the Serenity Prayer: Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the assholes I cannot avoid; The luck to avoid the ones I can; And the self-awareness not to be one myself
Kelly Williams Brown
#29. So you do know!" I shouted. My phone lay there like a genie's bottle, inanimate and yet containing the ability to grant me wishes and knowledge. "Girl, spill before I come over and dye your hair a natural color.
Atom Yang
#30. Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!
Emily Dickinson
#31. Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.
Elif Shafak
#32. God grant me the serentiy to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. God, grant me the serenity to stop beating myself up for not doing things perfectly, the courage to forgive myself because I'm working on doing better, and the wisdom to know that You already love me just the way I am.
Eleanor Brownn
#34. God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
Patrick Gordon
#35. Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
William Butler Yeats
#36. But no monk am I in my head, God grant me pardon," he whispered. His body drew closer, velvet and taut elegance. "My confessor has chastised me oft, and bade me study on my sins at length. And so, lady"--he kissed her, the hunger in it sinking down through her like a comet falling--"I have studied.
Laura Kinsale
#37. What wish did you grant me?" Lolly asked. "I can't tell you," the little girl said very seriously. "But if you believe, it will come true.
Viola Shipman
#38. Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.
Caroline Myss
#39. Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know - it's me!
John G. Miller
#40. May the four winds gather & disperse the strength to grant me with all the same blessings once bestowed upon the goddess of Olympus.
Truth Devour
#41. Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
Abigail Adams
#42. God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do.
Helen Steiner Rice
#43. Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number ... I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#44. Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#45. I will deny thee nothing:
Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
To leave me but a little to myself.
William Shakespeare
#46. God, grant me serenity to accept those things I can't change, the courage to change those I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
-Division St.
Studs Terkel
#47. Lord Jesus, I pray thee, grant me grace, that I may never set my heart on the things of this, but that all worldly and carnal affections may utterly die and be mortified in me. Grant me above all things that I may rest in thee, and finally quiet and pacify my heart in thee.
Catherine Parr
#48. Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.
Nachman Of Breslov
#49. O God, You know me to be set in the midst of great peril. Grant me such strength of mind and body, that those evils which I suffer for my sins I may overcome through Thy assistance. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
S.M. Stirling
#50. Two great prayers;
Yahweh, grant me grace for my daily activities.
Yahweh, protect me from all evil, so that my life will be free of pain in Jesus name. Amen!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#51. Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
George Farquhar
#52. Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!
Sarah Ferguson
#53. Dear God, grant me the violence to crush mine enemies.
Dear God, give me mechanical lungs, for when I'm drowning.
Aaron W. Rockwell
#54. Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
Thomas A Kempis
#55. O Christ, on you the many-eyed cherubim are unable to look because of the glory of your countenance, yet out of your love you accepted spittle on your face. Remove the shame from my face, and grant me to have an unashamed face before you at the time of prayer.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#56. Blessed are the powers that grant me magic.
I promise to use their gift well.
To help mend my world.
To help mend all worlds.
And should I forget to mend,
Should I refuse to mend,
Still I will remember
To do no harm.
Janni Lee Simner
#57. God grant me the SERENITY to accept what I cannot change, the TENACITY to change what I may, and the GOOD LUCK not to fuck up too often.
Stephen King
#58. What god do you serve? Inej had asked him. Whichever will grant me good fortune. Fortunate people didn't end up racing ass over teakettle beneath an ice moat in hostile territory.
Leigh Bardugo
#59. My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence. Work with me, so that my work might be the very best. Receive as an offering of love both my work and all my affections.
Brother Lawrence
#60. Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
Ovid
#61. Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.
Brendon Burchard
#62. Praised be St John, the glorified of God! Lord, grant me the prayers of St John, disciple and friend whom thou lovest, apostle of love. Thy love, forever, eternal, that my faith may become as complete, as flaming and tranquil, as his, and pierce as deep and speak as simply in the spirit.
Eric Milner-White
#63. God grant me the serenity to accept my goal weight, the courage to resist anything with more than three hundred calories, and the wisdom to check the fat grams before I open my mouth and insert a fork.
Shirley Jump
#64. Abraham's servant prayed for success: "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham" (Gen. 24:12 NASB). This is the first time in Scripture that we read of someone asking God for specific guidance.
Gary L. Thomas
#65. If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
David Livingstone
#66. The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.
John James Audubon
#67. The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept ... ' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.
Lauren London
#68. Lord, give me what you have made me want; I praise and thank you for the desire that you have inspired; perfect what you have begun, and grant me what you have made me long for.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#69. God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.
Dan Brown
#70. I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.
Martial
#71. Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.
Vincent De Paul
#72. I don't even know if the sun will rise or whether I'll wake up in the morning. I don't know if God will grant me my next breath. So I choose to live on faith rather than knowledge - and accept whatever comes, welcome or not, bitter or sweet - all of it, a gift from God.
Dan Millman
#73. This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley
#74. Grant me on earth what seems Thee best, Till death and Heav'n reveal the rest. - Isaac Watts
Marilynne Robinson
#75. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
Rabindranath Tagore
#76. Grant me one hour on love's most sacred shores
To clasp the bosom that my soul adores,
Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#77. Oh, God show me more of Your holiness.
Show me more of my sinfulness.
Help me to hate sin and to love righteousness as You do.
Grant me a deeper conviction of sin and a more thorough spirit of repentance.
And make me holy as You are holy.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#78. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#79. Already, this little-walked gigantic trail through my country's Western wilderness held in my mind the promise of escape from myself, the liberation only a huge transformation could grant me. This walk would be my salvation. It had to be.
Aspen Matis
#80. Why does not the stunning evidence of the last miracle grant me confidence in the next crisis? Because my immaturity does not permit such a faith, my desperate prayer is that God would grant me a robust faith sufficient to trust Him not for one crisis, but for an eternity of miracles.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#81. Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.
Tintoretto
#82. I am profoundly grateful to God that He did not grant me certain things for which I asked, and that He shut certain doors in my face.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#83. If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or humour, Heaven grant me a double portion of dullness.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#84. Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.
Jay Woodman
#85. I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart's content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
#86. And what god do you serve, then?"
"Whichever will grant me good fortune."
"I don't think gods work that way."
"I don't think I care.
Leigh Bardugo
#87. Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis Of Assisi
#88. Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made,
and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!
Ovid
#89. Grant me the strength to focus this week, to be mindful and present, to serve with excellence, to be a force of love.
Brendon Burchard
#90. Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#91. Father, a day upon the throne would be like a day of sitting on a bed of hot coals for me. If my heart has no peace, how can I fulfil your or the people's trust in me? I have seen how quickly time passes, and I know my youth is no different. Please grant me your permission.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#92. My God! my time is in Thine hands. Should it please Thee to lengthen my life, and complete, as Thou hast begun, the work of blanching my locks, grant me grace to wear them as a crown of unsullied honor.
Christian Scriver
#93. I ask him to join with me in prayer to the God of Truth that He may grant me the boon of Ahimsa in mind, word and deed.
Anonymous
#94. Grant me Love implies
not desire but
Commitment
Commitment accepts Challenge
Challenge embraces Theory
And you and I will get Reason: A way to explore
past actions
and
future dreams
Nikki Giovanni
#95. I do not pray ... I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men ... Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
Zora Neale Hurston
#96. And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.
Rick Riordan
#97. Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace,
Grant me. Father, a servant's place.
Christina Rossetti
#98. God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester Nimitz
#99. O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.
David Mallet
#100. I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Jonathan Swift
