{"quotes":[{"text":"The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calamities","destruction","devastation","failures","god","ignorance","poeple","reason","singular"],"id":4391,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Hershey Pennsylvania was self-proclaimed as the “Sweetest Place On Earth,” but less advertised than chocolate, it was also home to one of the state’s largest Children’s Hospitals. The streets lined with Hershey Kiss–shaped streetlamps that led excited children and families on vacation to chocolate tour rides and rollercoasters were the same exact streets that led anxious children and families to x-rays and MRIs on the worsts days of their lives. Chocolate was being created on the same street that childhood diseases were being diagnosed. And that was life. The sweetest of sensations and the deepest of devastations live next door to each other.","author":"Tessa Shaffer","tags":["devastation","life-and-death","life-and-living","no-regrets","recovery","recovery-from-grief","sickness-and-diseases"],"id":27791,"author_id":"Tessa+Shaffer"},{"text":"Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["broken-heart","brokenness","catastrophe","change","change-of-events","circumstances","despair","devastation","gasping","guts","hard-to-breath","hardships","pain","unexpected-changes","unexpected-turns","universe"],"id":30951,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"What I am recommending to the unmarried person, therefore, comes straight out of the Word: Stay out of bed unless you there alone! I know that advice is difficult to put into practice today. But I didn't make the rules. I'm just passing them along. God's moral laws are not designed to oppress us or deprive us of pleasure. They are there to protect us from the devastation of sin, including disease, heartache, divorce, and spiritual death. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity afterward is the Creator's own plan, and no one has devised a way to improve on it.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["a","advice","alone","bed","creator-s","devastation","devised","difficult","disease","divorce","fidelity","from","god-s","has","heartache","improve","into","it","laws","moral","no-one","on","out","plan","pleasure","practie","protect","put","sin","spiritual-death","stay","to","us","way"],"id":72197,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"I am back in my beloved city. The scene of desolation fills my eyes with tears. At every step my distress and agitation increases. I cannot recognize houses or landmarks I once knew well. Of the former inhabitants, there is no trace. Everywhere there is a terrible emptiness. All at once I find myself in the quarter where I once resided. I recall the life I used to live: meeting friends in the evening, reciting poetry, making love, spending sleepless nights pining for beautiful women and writing verses on their long tresses which held me captive. That was life! What is there left of it? Nothing.","author":"Khushwant Singh","tags":["delhi","devastation","loss","mir-taqi-mir"],"id":80419,"author_id":"Khushwant+Singh"},{"text":"Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["devastation","evil","good-and-evil","prevail","richelle","richelle-goodrich"],"id":92532,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Trees are affected by many factors. Global warming is changing rainfall, humidity, air composition, solar radiation, heating and cooling. Plants are sensitive to any of these factors. When all of the factors start to change at once, it may lead to devastation in the plant world.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["air","change","changing","composition","cooling","devastation","factors","global","heating","humidity","plants","radiation","rainfall","sensitive","solar","trees","warming","world"],"id":110890,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["devastation","love","loved","loving","majesty","passion","passionate","power","romance","valentine-s-day"],"id":122331,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It is entirely possible to be deeply sorry because of the devastation which sin has wrought in our lives—and yet not repent.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","devastation","repent","sin"],"id":127765,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"I could break things in a thousand ways--anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I broke one of my things, I lived with the pieces, or replaced it.","author":"Joshilyn Jackson","tags":["destruction","devastation","wreckage"],"id":148434,"author_id":"Joshilyn+Jackson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}