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

“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.”

“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.”

“The central theme of Anna Karenina," he said, "is that a rural life of moral simplicity, despite its monotony, is the preferable personal narrative to a daring life of impulsive passion, which only leads to tragedy.""That is a very long theme," the scout said. "It's a very long book," Klaus replied.[...]"Or maybe a daring life of impulsive passion leads to something else," the scout said, and in some cases this mysterious person was right. A daring life of impulsive passion is an expression which refers to people who follow what is in their hearts, and like people who prefer to follow their head, or follow a mysterious man in a dark blue raincoat, people who lead a daring life of impulsive passion end up doing all sorts of things.”

“When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.”

“Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.”