{"author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann","total_quotes":41,"quotes":[{"text":"One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["ability","amish","friendliness","gifts","happiness","jokes","joking","jonathan-fisher","smile","smiling"],"id":3566,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"It was as though God's hand was reaching down to Anna, and she was reaching her hands to Harvey and Joe, creating a circle of love.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["christ","circle-of-love","friendship","god","god-s-love","homeless","jesus","jesus-christ","love"],"id":5671,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["darkness","depression","freedom","hope"],"id":19020,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love - your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["heart","heart-and-soul","importance","investment","love","loving","loving-someone","others","risk","soul","vulnerability"],"id":27948,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"To deny the existence of God would be to close your eyes to the beauty around you, to close your ears to the symphony of nature, to close your nostrils to the scents wafting on the breeze, to close your mouth to the delicacies of nourishment, to close your hands to the feel of luxury, to close your mind to the ability to think, and to close your heart to the only love that can penetrate the depths of the soul. For in Him all things consist, in Him we live, and move, and have our being, and without Him we cannot help but be fools.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["atheism","beauty","christ","christian","creation","creationism","creationist","existence","fool","foolishness","fools","god","jesus","jesus-christ","nature","senses","soul"],"id":75138,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"The world is so different when viewed through the light of God’s Word.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["bible","god-s-word","worldview"],"id":79212,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"It was then that she realized she still had God. He was the only one who hadn't left her. He knew who she was, even if she didn't. A single tear formed in the corner of her eye as she thanked God for not abandoning her - especially when she needed Him most.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["abandonment","alone","aloneness","amish","amish-by-accident","amish-fiction","amnesia","believe","christianity","comfort","faith","god","hope","hopelessness","need","nobody","security","spredemann","tears","trust"],"id":81627,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["discovery","future","heartache","heartbreak","hope","inspiration","looking-back","love","past","treasure"],"id":83652,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn’t come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["desperation","god","strength","sustenance","weakness"],"id":95620,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"The Bible says that each person is a sinner and everyone is wicked in the sight of God. God cannot allow sin into Heaven, so we must get rid of our sin somehow. If we don’t, then we have no hope of Heaven.”Jesus is the only one who can take our sins away. The Bible says that God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Jesus came down from Heaven and died on the cross for our sins.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["death","heaven","jesus","sin"],"id":99085,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}