Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the

Summary

This quote highlights the unpredictability of how God responds to prayers. Sometimes, God's answers can come suddenly and unexpectedly, presenting us with what we have prayed for as if it were a challenge or test - like a gauntlet holding a gift. It suggests that these answers, while granted, may not always manifest in a form we might have anticipated or in a way that is immediately recognizable. There is a sense of mystery and adventure in the way God chooses to respond, urging us to be open to receiving blessings in unexpected ways.

Topics

Prayer

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Keep me safe, keep me from harm, keep me in your loving arms

Keep me safe, keep me from harm, keep me in your loving arms.

Mindy Starns Clark

Prayer Inspirational

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the hous

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Dickens

Humor Funny

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is lookin

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

Happiness Love

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the fut

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

Wisdom Life Inspirational

A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creat

A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric of the actual without ever coming fully 'out' in a person, place, or thing. A life points to ... 'matter in variation that enters assemblages and leaves them. A life is a vitality proper not to any individual but to 'pure immanence,' or that protean swarm that is not actual though it is real: 'A life contains only virtuals. It is made of virtualities.

Life Science Meaning Of Life Energy Matter Life Force

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Gardens

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Be

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

Beauty

If there is ever a science of programming language design, i

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

Design Science Language Method

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folk

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Science

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectl

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Life

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Concentration