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.

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.

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.

Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy.

Irony of life – GOD will always make you do things which you never want to.

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me.

Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.