{"quotes":[{"text":"Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["actuality","air","dishonesty","emphasis","honest","motives","reckless","truth"],"id":1776,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"When we over emphasis that we need God for every little thing, then we begin to depend on miracles.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["depending","emphasis","godly","miracles","miracles"],"id":43137,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["church","churches","emphasis","four","god","home","how","itself","keeping","love","not","places","protestants","prove","quality","rather","their","through","told","walls","were","work","works"],"id":58941,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"When we overemphasise miracles we are saying people could get something without qualification and merit.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["emphasis","merit","miracle","miracles","people","qualifications"],"id":88108,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"When we overemphasise miracles we underplay kingdom principles.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["emphasis","kingdom-principles","miracle","miracles"],"id":109426,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"We overemphasise miracles when we are supposed to be planning and be thinking forward.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["emphasis","miracles","planning-ahead"],"id":133500,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["compromise","emphasis","gospel","miracle","miracles","preaching"],"id":133820,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"In a country where miracles are been emphasized, people lose their sense of priority.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["country","emphasis","miracle","miracles","people","priority","sense-of-priority"],"id":196679,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accomplishments","bulb","burn","burn-out","defeat","emphasis","fail","failure","failures","focus","light","lightbulb","scrutinize","scrutiny","spotlight","success","successes","victory"],"id":197996,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"When we overemphasise miracles we underplay values.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["emphasis","miracle","miracles","values-in-life"],"id":277108,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}