I don’t know how people pray who don’t believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they’re possible I’ll do them.
Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.
What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.
Impossible desires are the height of unreason.
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.
I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.
