{"quotes":[{"text":"You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.","author":"The Skit Guys","tags":["discipleship","idolatry"],"id":249,"author_id":"The+Skit+Guys"},{"text":"Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will.","author":"Gregory of Nyssa","tags":["bible","discipleship","word-of-god"],"id":525,"author_id":"Gregory+of+Nyssa"},{"text":"The Holy Ghost is no temporary gift, He abides with the saints. We have but to seek Him aright, and He will be found of us. He is jealous, but He is pitiful; if He leaves in anger, He returns in mercy. Condescending and tender, He does not weary of us, but awaits to be gracious still.","author":"Charles Haddon Spurgeon","tags":["christ-likeness","discipleship","perseverance","sovereignty-of-god"],"id":1023,"author_id":"Charles+Haddon+Spurgeon"},{"text":"Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: 'She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.","author":"Caitlin Keiper","tags":["dialogue","discipleship","openness"],"id":1043,"author_id":"Caitlin+Keiper"},{"text":"We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.","author":"Matt Chandler","tags":["boredom","discipleship","disillusionment","evangelism","inspiration","spiritual-leadership"],"id":2278,"author_id":"Matt+Chandler"},{"text":"His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.","author":"Davis Bunn","tags":["alertness","awareness","discipleship","prospective","surveillance"],"id":3530,"author_id":"Davis+Bunn"},{"text":"Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.","author":"Christopher Caldwell","tags":["discipleship","humility"],"id":3768,"author_id":"Christopher+Caldwell"},{"text":"So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.","author":"James MacDonald","tags":["discipleship","small-groups"],"id":3861,"author_id":"James+MacDonald"},{"text":"It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["discipleship","education","mentoring"],"id":4200,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being.","author":"Samael Aun Weor","tags":["discipleship"],"id":4345,"author_id":"Samael+Aun+Weor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":979,"pages":98,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}