{"quotes":[{"text":"The significant thing about Edwards is the way he enters into the tradition, infuses it with his personality and makes it live. The vitality of his thought gives to its product the value of unique creation. Two qualities in him especially contribute to this result, large constructive imagination and a marvelously acute power of abstract reasoning. With the vision of the seer he looks steadily upon his world, which is the world of all time and space and existence, and sees it as a whole; God and souls are in it the great realities, and the transactions between them the great business in which all its movement is concerned.","author":"H. Norman Gardiner","tags":["evangelism","exhortation","prophecy","vision"],"id":16898,"author_id":"H.+Norman+Gardiner"},{"text":"Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.","author":"Augustine of Hippo","tags":["discipleship","example","exhortation","leadership","self-discipline"],"id":120232,"author_id":"Augustine+of+Hippo"},{"text":"I'd always follow Nixon's orders, but you can't order somebody to be happy.","author":"Charles W. Colson","tags":["compassion","counseling","encouragement","exhortation","leadership"],"id":136481,"author_id":"Charles+W.+Colson"},{"text":"At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.","author":"Harold Holzer","tags":["exhortation","motivation","rhetoric","word-choice"],"id":344780,"author_id":"Harold+Holzer"},{"text":"Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["conflict","confrontation","exhortation","inspiration","leadership","unity"],"id":368461,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"},{"text":"Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.","author":"H.W. Brands","tags":["exhortation","goal-setting","leadership","motivation"],"id":415472,"author_id":"H.W.+Brands"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}