“In my heart a desperate cry rang out for deliver­ance, but I seemed to lack a strong grip in the prayer for my liberation. It was because the Holy Spirit did not back up that prayer at all, still I prayed and cried to God for my release. He however was not to deliver me but manifest his power and his great love which would transform my cell into a sanctuary. I was destined to learn to know my God from an entirely new angle.”

G. Herbert Schmidt, Songs in the Night, p. 54. New edition coming August 2023.