Answered prayers

Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers
are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had
better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we
were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were
braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far
more desperate posts in the great battle.

... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), "The Efficacy of Prayer," in The World's Last Night: And Other Essays