{"author":"Lisa Wingate","author_id":"Lisa+Wingate","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"How can God allow such abominations to flourish unchecked in this world?The answer came in a question, Ruby.God, in reply, asked, 'How can you?","author":"Lisa Wingate","tags":["christian-living","inspirational","justice","making-a-difference"],"id":893,"author_id":"Lisa+Wingate"},{"text":"The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.","author":"Lisa Wingate","tags":["lighthouses","moving-forward","past","troubles"],"id":18149,"author_id":"Lisa+Wingate"},{"text":"Everything you want waits on the other side of fear.","author":"Lisa Wingate","tags":["fear","wants"],"id":44375,"author_id":"Lisa+Wingate"},{"text":"The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.","author":"Lisa Wingate","tags":["decisions","life","memories"],"id":50765,"author_id":"Lisa+Wingate"},{"text":"What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the ocean to rescue the foundering ship. It cannot calm the waters or clear the shoals. It can only cast light into the darkness. It can only point the way. Yet, through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Show this old lighthouse the way.","author":"Lisa Wingate","tags":["guidance","lighthouse","prayer"],"id":70160,"author_id":"Lisa+Wingate"},{"text":"That’s the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.","author":"Lisa Wingate","tags":["cleaning","metaphor","recovery"],"id":101929,"author_id":"Lisa+Wingate"},{"text":"The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.","author":"Lisa Wingate","tags":["future","past"],"id":107559,"author_id":"Lisa+Wingate"},{"text":"A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.","author":"Lisa Wingate","tags":["principles"],"id":111107,"author_id":"Lisa+Wingate"},{"text":"Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.","author":"Lisa Wingate","tags":["christianity","giving","god","serve"],"id":166085,"author_id":"Lisa+Wingate"},{"text":"The upscale neighborhoods in Blue Sky Hill weren't all lily white anymore, but you could be sure their kids didn't wear our kind of clothes, or get free lunches at the Summer Kitchen, or pick up used books and magazines down at the Book Basket store, or go to the public school. These days it wasn't about what color you were, but how much money you had. The same, only different. It was still people not wanting to be with people who weren't their kind.","author":"Lisa Wingate","tags":["money","prejudice"],"id":178974,"author_id":"Lisa+Wingate"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}