I had no way of anticipating the adjustments I would have to make and the suffering I would have to endure in the months and years ahead.

I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.

It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.

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.

The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.

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.

the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it.

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.

Trust and be patient. You are making it happen, in your own way, it its own time.

Why do I spend every moment with you thinking about why I did not go in the opposite direction when I had the chance?

Do not be a stupid, unless someone is paying you to be.

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

You just work through it. You just hang in there.

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

My old man said, 'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam.

When I see Messi play, in my opinion, he should win the Ballon d'Or every year. He is an unbelievable player.

Total evil. dang, his principal had been right all along... he really was demonspawn.