{"quotes":[{"text":"The holiness of the gospel softens the hardness of the heart.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","doubt","gospel","hardness","scriptures","theology","unbelieving"],"id":3733,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry.","author":"Lalita Tademy","tags":["cane-river","hardness","heavy","lalita-tademy","life","load","slavery"],"id":25831,"author_id":"Lalita+Tademy"},{"text":"Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).","author":"Richard Baxter","tags":["comfort","hardness","heart"],"id":89205,"author_id":"Richard+Baxter"},{"text":"Only hardship softens the hardness of the human heart.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian-living","hardness","hardship","human-heart","motivational"],"id":102267,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart.","author":"Gary Rohrmayer","tags":["change","change-management","change-your-life","change-your-mind","church-leadership","hardness","heart","leadership"],"id":144622,"author_id":"Gary+Rohrmayer"},{"text":"To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["hardness","longing","yearning"],"id":170514,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"Life is flinching in the midst of breathing, gasping at the thought of dying. It’s climbing ropeless up sheer rock faces, groping for the next finger-hole of hope. Steady on! Only a thousand feet to go and after that a jungle, a minefield, a rapids. (Can I stop smiling now?)Once, not long ago, I was flung off the cliff of the moment, thrust into an illicit relationship with destiny, an affair not of my making. Was I making love or being raped? The lines were fuzzy.","author":"Chila Woychik","tags":["death-and-dying","hardness","life","suffering","sufferings","writing"],"id":218502,"author_id":"Chila+Woychik"},{"text":"Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that.","author":"Lalita Tademy","tags":["cane-river","hardness","lalita-tademy","life","slavery"],"id":255780,"author_id":"Lalita+Tademy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}