{"author":"Ricky Maye","author_id":"Ricky+Maye","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"Your identity is not in who you can be. It is in who you always have been.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["addiction","confidence","depression","fail","failure","failures","future","growing","identity","identity-crisis","image","mirror","past","purpose","self-harm","self-helm","self-image","self-improvement","to-write-love-on-her-arms","twloha"],"id":4412,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"},{"text":"I would encourage you to embrace life in your living.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["christian","improvement","jesus","life","living"],"id":48302,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"},{"text":"Many people will never read a Bible, but they will read you.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["christian-living","christianity","insperational","ricky-maye"],"id":57624,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"},{"text":"Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["christian","finance","financial","heart","inside","money","pocket","prosperity","twloha","word-of-faith"],"id":58584,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"},{"text":"We read about the name Jesus was given at his birth; Immanuel, meaning “God with us”. This God wasn’t content with dwelling in fiction, this God wasn’t content living with the seraphim and this God wasn’t content with bulls and goats anymore. This God wanted to dwell with you, with all of your mess, with all of your failures with all the dirtiness that is you; he wanted to sit with you. Here’s the amazing thing, God doesn’t care if you’re a catholic, a Lutheran, Post modern or Emergent; he wants to sit with you.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["creation","earth","emergent","emerging","failure","faith","god","heaven","immanuel","jesus","luthern","post-modern","progressive","short-coming","sin"],"id":124058,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"},{"text":"To Jesus, the Christian life wasn't about being perfect but about being perfected.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["christ","christian","growth","help","inspirational","jesus","perfect","to-live-by","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality"],"id":135502,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"},{"text":"A journey begins with a single step.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["christian","experiance","faith","journey","life","living","step","steps","walking"],"id":141745,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"},{"text":"Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["christian","faith","jesus","lamp","light","light-of-the-world","pastor","quotes","scarred","scars","sermon","spiritual","wisdom"],"id":151051,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"},{"text":"Life and death are something everyone will experience. It is living that only few will have embraced.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["death","dying","inspirtation","life","living","purpose","self-help","twloha"],"id":196290,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"},{"text":"Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["baggage","church","faith","family","forgiveness","humor","insperational","life","love","relationships","stress"],"id":203257,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}