'A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.' -unknown
In General Robbie Risner's autobiography, The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese, he attributes faith in God and prayer as being instrumental to his surviving the Hanoi prison experience. In his words:
To make it, I prayed by the hour. It was automatic, almost subconscious. I did not ask God to take me out of it. I prayed he would give me strength to endure it. When it would get so bad that I did not think I could stand it, I would ask God to ease it and somehow I would make it. He kept me.
Further on he added,
I could not have existed if I had not been able to pray. To be able to mention the names of my wife, children, friends or relatives, or one of my fellow POWs who I knew was being tortured or mistreated, brought us together. The thousands of miles, the walls of my cell, the guards, were all transcended by this dimension of communication [prayer].
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