Not what we wish, but what we want,
Oh, let thy grace supply!


Hymn, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let not that happen which I wish, but that which is right", Menander, Fragment.

James Merrick Quotes

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh, let thy grace supply!

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh, let thy grace supply!

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh, let thy grace supply!

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh, let thy grace supply!