A Prayer Unanswered Quotes

“God decides when our lives end, of course, but before then, we must cling to life, for while we breathe, we can be assured that we have a purpose in life greater than simply living.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“In our stumbling, we fail, again and again. But we are so grateful for a God who is greater than all our sins, our harshly spoken words, our lies, and our overly outspoken truths.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“It’s all right to take time and talk to God. Just remember to keep your heart open. Trust that, even if your heart is not in the right place, He will still be able to work with your prayers.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“He’d figured out early on in his relationship with his sisters that pushing never did anything in any area—leading did. Leading meant one walked the path ahead of a woman, guarding her and making sure it was safe before asking her to walk in his footsteps. He applied that idea to every aspect of his relationship with most women.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“Alice wondered if, as with her life, everyone hid their shattered places in silence. Or was that just her?”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“When he’d hurt Alice, Peter, who usually lingered on the side of “too gracious,” had found there were some things he really couldn’t forgive. Not in the way he usually forgave things. Technically forgive, yes, but he’d always remember the man’s face with a touch of revulsion.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“Cassie’s voice held that soft, pleading tone that indicated she wanted the pettiness in Alice to edge down a notch to a bearable level.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“At times her femininity must take precedence over even common sense.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“Someone needs to poke holes in Ivy's idealism.'
'But why must it always be you?”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“Right now it felt that instead of being sharpened, she was being cut into a thousand pieces. God would be the real changing and healing Force in Alice’s life. He would have to be.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“I know you can do it, but I know it won’t be easy. All I’m asking is for you to come back to the land of the living. Not all the way, perhaps, but look out of your grave enough to see what’s going on about you.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“What did one do when one was still madly in love with one’s wife but she had now temporarily misplaced the heart she had been given?”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“Peter could be absentminded. Absentminded people got hurt when they were alone on a train, involved in writing articles and other such things that distracted their concentration from complete focus on safety and not being mugged, murdered, or otherwise harmed by some stranger.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered