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

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.

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.

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.

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.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old.

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

If you don't create your reality, your reality will create you.

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

Start out by making 100 users really happy, rather than a lot more users only a little happy.