{"quotes":[{"text":"When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["allies","church-members","collaboration","connections","coworkers","ensuring-the-future","family","friends","friendships","kids","love","networking","projects","relationships","spouse","strangers"],"id":25306,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"God wants every member of the Body of Christ to be a blessing one to another; that’s why, everyone has to be involved in a ministry.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","church-members","ministry"],"id":232328,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"God wants to save us in a people. He does not want to save us in isolation. And so today's church more than ever is accentuating the idea of being a people. The church therefore experiences conflicts, because it does not want a mass; it wants a people. A mass is a heap of persons, the drowsier the better, the more compliant the better. The church rejects communism's slander that it is the opium of the people. It has no intention of being the people's opium. Those that create drowsy masses are others. The church wants to rouse men and women to the true meaning of being a people. What is a people? A people is a community of persons where all cooperate for the common good.","author":"Oscar A. Romero","tags":["church","church-members","society"],"id":278988,"author_id":"Oscar+A.+Romero"},{"text":"Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we get in a situation is not the other person’s fault, rather it is our own hang-ups. A life filled with bias, hatred, judgment, insecurity, fear, delusion and self-righteousness can cloud the soul of anyone you meet. Our job is never to assume,instead it is to listen, communicate, ask questions then ask more, until we know the true depth of someone’s spirit.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["answers","anxiety","aquaintances","benefit-of-the-doubt","bias","brainwashed","brothers","children","choices","christianity","christmas-spirit","church-members","communication","compassion","dating","delusions","empathy","eternal-truths","exfamily","family","family-members","fathers","fear","first-impressions","forgiving-family","forgiving-friends","forgiving-sisters","friends","holy-ghost","homeless","jesus-christ","knowing-someone","listen","listening","love","mental-disorders","mental-illness","mothers","new-perspective","new-year","not-seeing","persepctive","promptings","questions","reaching-out","relationships","relgion","resolutions","seeing","seekers","seeking","self-righteousness","sermons","sisters","spirtual","strangers","wrong-impresssions"],"id":282639,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activism","arguments","battles","church-members","desputes","family","fights","friends","insecurity","let-it-go","life-missions","move-on","organizations","peace","sisters","what-matters","women"],"id":332563,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["church-members","explaining","families","friends","healing","helping-others","irony","peace","relationships","respect","revelation","thoughtlessness","transitions","understanding"],"id":352392,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The real church is comprised of a long list of 'formers' who collectively work together for world reform.","author":"Johnnie Dent Jr.","tags":["church","church-calling","church-leaders","church-members","reformation","reforming-the-church"],"id":359702,"author_id":"Johnnie+Dent+Jr."},{"text":"You're going to come across some truly gifted people in your lifetime that seem to know all the answers. However, they lost their personal relationship with God, along the way. Love them anyways, and do everything you can to help them restore that relationship. They are fighting a war that you don't know anything about.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["aquaintances","church-members","compassion","empathy","family","friends","healing","love","pastors","patience","restoration","understanding"],"id":362256,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Don't be a spectator in the kingdom of God , find something that you can do , at-least even going to church is one of them.","author":"Alinani joe","tags":["church-members","faithfullness","god","kingdom","kingdom-of-god"],"id":375755,"author_id":"Alinani+joe"},{"text":"May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God's family.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["answers-to-prayers","believers-in-god","christian","christian-living","christianity","church","church-members","faith-in-god","faith","family-life","family-love","family-values","gentle-parenting","gentleness","god-s-family","good-and-evil","good-deeds","good-intentions","lessons-in-life","life-lessons","life-women-life","living-life","living-together","living-well","love","parental-love","parenting-advice","parents-and-children","people","values","values-and-beliefs","values-in-life"],"id":433039,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}