4 Quotes by Annika Thor

A conversation is so much more than words: a conversation is eyes, smiles, the silences between words.

They don't need our prayers. They need food and warm clothes!""We all need prayers," Aunt Marta placates her [Stephie]."What kind of prayers will these be?" Stephie asks. "For Jesus Christ to come back to earth and make five loaves and two fishes be enough for all the Jews in Theresienstadt?

The next day Aunt Marta comes home and tells Stephie that she has been to a meeting with the pastor and that there will be no collection taken up for the benefit of Stephie's parents. Instead, the congregation will pray for them and all the other victims of the war at the prayer meeting that Saturday afternoon. From Deep Sea

... I grieve the fact that there is so much hardness of the heart among people who ought to know what love of one's fellow man implies. But we must display patience and humility in the face of God."from Deep Sea