Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions.

My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue on the epic journey that prayer is.

prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn’t respond to our needs and requests.

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.

We can escape any hardship with hope in our heart.

We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves.

Our eyes met. I kissed her soft face, and down the stairs they descended. Their voices blended into an echo, a murmur. I ventured barefoot into the bedroom. The dark gown lay crumpled upon the bed

We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

They write songs about California girls for a reason.