{"quotes":[{"text":"May God illuminate your path with great favours.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["abundant-life","answers-to-prayers","blessed-life","christian","destiny","dreams","fate","favour","god","gods-grace","grace","inspiring","journey","life-philosophy","path","pray","praying-life","purpose","pursuit","wise-thoughts","wishes"],"id":63,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Endure despite the pain. The key is grace of strength.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","challenges","christian","difficult-times","enduring","fearless","grace","hard-times","hope","inspirational-life","overcomer","overcoming-obstacles","positive-thinking","positivity","spirituality","strength"],"id":702,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent of grace to catch my wandering attention and quiet what Buddhists might call my “monkey mind,” which is more often than not swinging wildly from branch to branch on intellectual and emotional trees. On the way back down the hiking trail after my encounter with the hawk in Big Sky, I stopped thinking and started looking and listening. That's when I realized winter was turning into spring before me. Change was happening. Creation, and perhaps the Creator, was speaking. I just needed to be outside to hear the voice.","author":"Cathleen Falsani","tags":["creation","creator","god-s-voice","grace","nature","speaking"],"id":1149,"author_id":"Cathleen+Falsani"},{"text":"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["life","man","grace "],"id":1350,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"The Holy God gives grace.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","faith","forgiveness","god","grace","religion","theology"],"id":1372,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Dignity is pride’s barometer.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["communication","communication-skills","dignity","first-impressions","grace","motivational-speaker","relationship","self-confidence","self-esteem","susan-young"],"id":1682,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"A basic reality of life is that we all struggle. We hurt and have hurt other people. We all feel lost sometimes. This isn’t all we are, but it is a part of who we are. The only question I have when I’m with someone is, “Can they admit it? And will they let me admit it too?","author":"Anna White","tags":["christianity","faith","grace","honesty","hurt","journey","life","lost","memoir","pain","relationships","religion","sisterhood","struggle"],"id":1686,"author_id":"Anna+White"},{"text":"Don’t be a victim of circumstances. Choose victory by gracious endurance.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","challenges","christian-life","circumstances","endurance","endure","faith","grace","hope","inspirational","motivation","overcomer","positive","positive-attitude","self-help","situation","victim"],"id":1949,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Let love make your spirit grow.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["belief","christian-life","divine-self","faith","forgiveness","god","grace","hope","life-lessons","living","love","motivation-uplifting","religion","self","self-help","spirituality","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita","wise-words"],"id":2070,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge that no mistake can hold a candle to the love that draws us home. My repentance, accordingly, is not so much for my failings but for the two-bit attitude toward them by which I made them more sovereign than grace. Grace - the imperative to hear the music, not just listen for errors - makes all infirmities occasions of glory.","author":"Robert Farrar Capon","tags":["faith","freedom","grace","jesus","law","love"],"id":2134,"author_id":"Robert+Farrar+Capon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1913,"pages":192,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}