“Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
For the facing of this hour,
For the facing of this hour.”
Source: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
Context: God of grace and God of glory,
On Thy people pour Thy power.
Crown Thine ancient church’s story,
Bring her bud to glorious flower.
Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
For the facing of this hour,
For the facing of this hour.
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“Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal,
Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal.”
Source: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
Context: Lo! the hosts of evil ’round us,
Scorn Thy Christ, assail His ways.
From the fears that long have bound us,
Free our hearts to faith and praise.
Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
For the living of these days,
For the living of these days.
“O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives”
An American Prayer (1978)
Context: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it
“Heaven grants us this hour: now from our gate
all mists have cleared; on high, clouds roll away.”
Source: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 3121–3122; quoted by Joe Biden, while welcoming Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in Washington (July 2015), as reported in "The Tale of Kieu, lotus and the US President" by Bui Hoang Tam, dtinews.vn (25 May 2016) http://dtinews.vn/en/news/027/45323/the-tale-of-kieu--lotus-and-the-us-president.html: "Thank heaven we are here today, to see the sun through parting fog and clouds."
“Friends and companions,
Have we not known hard hours before this?
My men, who have endured still greater dangers,
God will grant us an end to these as well.”
O socii—neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum—
O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Lines 198–199 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
"The Eloquent Communicators"
The Life of Birds (1998)
“Ulysses S. Grant, you invite me to lunch then show up an hour late drunk?”
As quoted in General Robert E. Lee And the Origins of the American Civil War (1999), by Phoney Mc Ring-Ring, p. 117
“I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass — which is better than trying to fill them.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)