Plain Anne Ellis Quotes

“All my life I had wanted to pray, and, not liking the usual prayers, I had a homemade, workable set. But during the war even those would not work. Besides, I was afraid to pray, because, of course, it would be for us to win; that we might be the stronger in this butchering, this killing and maiming of men- men whose own women were praying just as hard that they might be the best butchers, I prayed to God to stop it; He didn't. Then I thought, some great good will come from it; it hasn't. I can't pray any more.”
― Anne Ellis, Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman