{"quotes":[{"text":"As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christian","christianity","closet","coat","coattails","contemplate","contemplation","fear","fearful","frightened","god","infinite","jesus","jesus-christ","join","joining","mediocre","mediocrity","partner","partnership","relationship","relationships","surrender","surrendered","surrendering","unify","unity"],"id":62692,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["chance","complex","complexity","contemplate","contradictory","creation","creationism","evolution","evolutionary","god","happenstance","illogical","methodical","odd","opposed","opposite","random","randomness"],"id":119743,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["alone","art","blessed","boredom","company","contemplate","contentment","creativity","curse","good-company","growth","hard-work","imagination","independent","loneliness","perseverance","reflection","self-sufficient","solitude","time","writer"],"id":119780,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Rarely do I truly understand the disease which ails me. Therefore, rarely do I truly understand the fix that would cure me. And so maybe I should truly contemplate how rarely I recognize that God understands both.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bible","christian","christianity","contemplate","cure","diagnosis","disease","fix","god","rare","rarely","solution","solve","understanding"],"id":138714,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer...A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["answer","better","contemplate","end","good","mystery","thing"],"id":154205,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"},{"text":"The quieter the mind the louder the soul.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["contemplate","faith","inner-peace","inner-silence","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational-about-life","inspirational-for-women","inspirational-motivation","inspirational-of-the-day","meditation","mind","mind","peace","peace","silence","soul","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","thinking","thinking"],"id":156552,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","consider","consideration","contemplate","depress","depressed","depression","dispirit","dispirited","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","murder","murders","muse","musing","musings","regret","regrets","satire","self-murder","suicidal","suicide","suicides","think-deep"],"id":161369,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aggravate","aggravates","aggravation","brain","brood-about","brood-on","chew-over","cogitate","complement","complements","compliment","compliments","consider","contemplate","deliberate-over","dwell-on","fast","fool","foolish","fools","general-semantics","intellect","intelligent","meditate-on","mind","mull-over","muse-on","ponder","reflect-on","ruminate-on","semantics","silence","silent","speak","speaker","speakers","talk","talker","talkers","think","think-about","thinker","thinkers","tongue","tongues","turn-over-in-one-s-mind","wisdom","wise"],"id":187616,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.","author":"Robin Hobb","tags":["awake","awaken","contemplate","depression","full","numb","pain","remember","sorrow","stillness","wakefulness"],"id":190887,"author_id":"Robin+Hobb"},{"text":"No one answer is ever the answer.","author":"Ahmed Mostafa","tags":["answers","contemplate","contemplation","deceit","denial","lying","thinking","truth","truth-of-life","truth"],"id":285647,"author_id":"Ahmed+Mostafa"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}