{"quotes":[{"text":"How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?... We can and do use words to point to all of our human experiences. However, the experience of 'God as Agape' is beyond words, beyond the limitations of our minds.","author":"John David Geib","tags":["agape","agape-love","christian","christianity","experiences","god","humanity","inspirational","jesus","words"],"id":65795,"author_id":"John+David+Geib"},{"text":"A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of clinging to Jesus while being misunderstood, dismissed, and judged by those she loved most. Me included. It had cost her to love, had cost her much to mother. It always does. But she would tell you that it's worth it, that there is no other way.","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["agape","love","truth"],"id":81677,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"},{"text":"They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover.","author":"David Rovics","tags":["agape","believe","betrayal","break-up","broken","cheat","cheater","cheating","closet","commitment","communication","consent","control","cry","depressed","desire","dirty","divorce","divorced","dream","empowering","end","ended","eros","family","fear","feelings","feminism","forever","freedom","friends","friendship","gone","happiness","heartbreak","heartbroken","hearts","honesty","horny","human","humanity","hurt","infidelity","jealousy","jerk","keep","keeper","keepers","live","lost","lovers","monogamy","nasty","need","nonmonogamy","pain","partners","peace","plural","polyamory","polyandry","polycule","polygamy","polygyny","possessive","quad","queer","real","relationship","respect","romantic","sad","share","sharing","slut","sluts","sorrow","spice","spouse","stay","suffering","sweet","sweethearts","swinging","team","threesome","time","triad","trouble","truth","undercover","unfaithful","unicorn","unity","valentine","valentines","value","wisdom","wishes","yolo"],"id":89986,"author_id":"David+Rovics"},{"text":"Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.","author":"Ann Brashares","tags":["agape","family","life","love","unconditional-love"],"id":112288,"author_id":"Ann+Brashares"},{"text":"I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.","author":"Sri Chinmoy","tags":["agape","happiness","self-control"],"id":122692,"author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy"},{"text":"We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the agápe in their heart. Your value in the cosmos is greater than precious metals or jewels, humans have to potential to take us all into a period of great enlightenment, or to our ruin. The choice is yours.","author":"Guy T. Simpson Jr.","tags":["agape","agape-love","choice","humanity","inspirational","love","potential","potential-for-greatness","value"],"id":122704,"author_id":"Guy+T.+Simpson+Jr."},{"text":"Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape","agape-love","community","compassion","existence","history","human-nature","human-rights-day","humanity-and-society","love","man-s-inhumanity-to-man","mankind","peace","philosophy","police-reform","police-shootings","social-responsibility","spirituality","stop-killing-each-other","war","wearedallas","wearehumanity","wisdom","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":165937,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling.","author":"Colleen Hoover","tags":["agape","colleen-hoover","crumbling","holder","hope","hopeless","sad"],"id":178300,"author_id":"Colleen+Hoover"},{"text":"The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.","author":"Stephen Kendrick","tags":["agape","love","marriage","unconditional-love"],"id":184533,"author_id":"Stephen+Kendrick"},{"text":"This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["agape","catholicism","christianity","god","jesus-shock","love","philosophy","secret-of-life","self-giving","spirituality"],"id":189535,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}