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• O Lord, grant that we may always be right, for Thou knowest we will never change our minds.
• Oh Lord, grant that we may not despise our rulers; and grant, oh Lord, that they may not act so we can't help it.
  -- Lyman Beeche...
• Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxvii, 1...
• Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.
  -- Bishop Berkeley (1684-1753) -- Can Love be controlled by Advice?...
• Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.
  -- Book of Common Prayer -- Baptism of those of Riper Yea...
• Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. -- Michelangelo
• Lord, when we are wrong, make us easy to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with.
  -- Peter Marshall...
• Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the praye
  Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray....
• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one
  O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. --Voltaire...