{"quotes":[{"text":"Christians sometimes make themselves into elephants afraid of mice. You have the Creator of the universe on your side; not to mention, you've been given eternal life. 'Whom or what shall you fear?' To be afraid of anything other than God himself is like an insult to God.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anxiety","apologetics","bravery","christ","christ-jesus","christian","christianity","courage","darkness","death","defensive","doubt","elephant","encouragement","eternal-life","evil","faith","faith-in-god","fear","fearlessness","funny","funny-but-true","god","goodness","humor","inspirational","irrational-fear","jesus","jesus-christ","life","light","love","martyr","motivational","mouse","negativity","obedience","offended","optimism","pessimism","positivity","power","pray","strength","trust","trust-in-god","universe","world","worry"],"id":4189,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["boundaries","boundary","captive","christian","christianity","defense","defense-mechanisms","defensive","destroy","destruction","fail","failure","fortress","fortresses","god","imprisoned","jesus","jesus-christ","protect","protection","rubble","self-protection"],"id":9068,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anger","beliefs","conflict","defensive","dispute","frustration","hate","idol","impatient","law","lawlessness","materialism","morality","offended","offensive","opinions","patience","politics","rage","religion","science","short-temper","temper"],"id":32387,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Getting defensive doesn't hide the fact that you know you could have done better. Stop putting your energy into your excuses.","author":"Tony Curl","tags":["defensive","energy","excuses"],"id":57292,"author_id":"Tony+Curl"},{"text":"I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.","author":"Shia LaBeouf","tags":["like","little","defensive "],"id":68679,"author_id":"Shia+LaBeouf"},{"text":"Playing nice' comes naturally when our neuroception detects safety and promotes physiological states that support social behavior. However, pro-social behavior will not occur when our neuroception misreads the environmental cues and triggers physiological states that support defensive strategies. After all, 'playing nice' is not appropriate or adaptive behavior in dangerous or life-threatening situations. In these situations, humans - like other mammals - react with more primitive neurobiological defense systems. To create relationships, humans must subdue these defensive reactions to engage, attach, and form lasting social bonds. Humans have adaptive neurobehavioral systems for both pro-social and defensive behaviors.","author":"Stephen W. Porges","tags":["complex-ptsd","dangerous-people","defensive","distrust","fear","interpersonal-relationships","neurophysiology","polyvagal-theory","social","triggers","trust","unsafe-people"],"id":108844,"author_id":"Stephen+W.+Porges"},{"text":"Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?","author":"Kyra Gregory","tags":["anger","angst","defensive","defensiveness","frustration","pain"],"id":169528,"author_id":"Kyra+Gregory"},{"text":"Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","blog","blogging","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","common-sense","considerate","creative-writing","defensive","essay","inspirational","knowledge","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","philosophy","precaution","precautionary","protection","proverbs","prudence","prudent","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","social-networking","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","wisdom","writing"],"id":193210,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"When you become aggressive in arguments, you force the other person to become defensive which means they’ll either get ready to fight you or ready to flee from you.","author":"Sam Owen","tags":["aggressive","arguments","defensive","emotions","fight-or-flight","psychology","relationships"],"id":227838,"author_id":"Sam+Owen"},{"text":"I see how you look at me,” spits the hateful man. He thinks we look upon him with the evil eye when we are not looking at him that way at all. We are just looking at him. It’s because he can’t accept the hate inside of himself that he projects it onto us.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["defense","defensive","denial","evil","evil-eye","hate","mirror","projection"],"id":230602,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}