Louis Zamperini Quotes

Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

Pray that we can come out alive.

I hope to God that I know what I am doing.

I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

Anytime you're in fear for your life, it's intense.

Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.

I’m saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It’s going to take us a miracle to get through this.” Whether he was serious or not, Claire sent the prayer up toward heaven, and she thought the others did, too. So it seemed kind of miraculous when the doorbell rang. “At least they’re getting more polite when they try to kill us,” Shane said.

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.