{"quotes":[{"text":"From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["experience","holy-book"],"id":890,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Quran‬, ‪Bible‬, ‪BhagwadGita‬ are your (as an follower) way of life and not everyone's way of life, so don't force people to change. These Holy books teach you to change yourself (for good) and not others.","author":"honeya","tags":["bhagwad-geeta","bhagwadgita","bible","extremist","god","holy-book","life","people","quran","religion","religious","teachings","wise-words"],"id":22276,"author_id":"honeya"},{"text":"The scripture gives us timeless hope.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["belief","bible","christian-behavior","christian-life","christianity","christianity-faith","courage","faith-in-god","faith","holy-bible","holy-book","holy-writings","hope-and-life","hope-for-each-day","hope","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful-heart","hopeful","inner-strength","positive-thinking","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-christianity","religion-spirituality","religious-faith","religious","religious-spirituality","scriptures","wise","wise-words"],"id":52655,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.","author":"Ayaan Hirsi Ali","tags":["democracy","god","government","holy-book","islam","muslim","religion"],"id":84953,"author_id":"Ayaan+Hirsi+Ali"},{"text":"To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["abomination","atheism","belief","believer","bible","blasphemy","carnal-life","degradation","divine","divine-comedy","faith","fiction","holy","holy-book","michael-bassey-johnson","non-fiction","plaything","reckless","ridicule","sacred","sacrilege","sanctification","sanctify","serious","sin","trespass","unbelieve","unbeliever"],"id":161457,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The moment that all these myths were brought together in so-called 'holy books'has -without any doubt- to be seenas the most disastrous point in timein the history of mankind.From: 'Gesels van een imaginaire god'(Scourges of an imaginary god).","author":"A.J. Beirens","tags":["atheism","bible","christianity","disastrous","faith","god","history","holy-book","mankind","myths"],"id":189502,"author_id":"A.J.+Beirens"},{"text":"Gods can only keep their promises in books.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","holy-book","holy-books","holy-scriptures","holy-writings","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion"],"id":229614,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["apologetics","apology","bible","christianity","contamination","discovery","error","holy-book","learning","lie","lies","mental-discoveries","mistakes","perfection","prophet","prophetic","scripture","scriptures","truth"],"id":253907,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"In the beginning was love, and love was with God, and love was God.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beginning","bible","bible","biblical","christ","faith","god","harmony","holy","holy-book","hope","hopeful","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","love","religion","religious","sacred","spiritual","spirituality"],"id":270747,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"For all these stars,nothing is new.They’ve seen all kinds of warsand miracles, too.They know the messengers with their holy bookswill smile and wash their hands in blood.They know the politicians with their good lookswill make the poor eat pies of mud.They’ve seen the Earth freeze and then burn with greed.They’ve seen the treesand the seas emptied.Yet, you won’t hear their sneerswhen a man arrivesand, having experienced a number of years,proclaims: 'I have lived!'Because nothing is new under these stars:the lies, the love, the memories and scars, the ruin, the revolution, the fakes and true,the families, the friends, none of it is new.All of it—even the me and you.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["blood","burn","change","earth","experience","fakes","freeze","good-looks","greed","hands","holy","holy-book","hope","i-want-change","interesting","issue","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lies","life","lived","lives","me-and-you","memories","memory","messenger","miracle","mud","mud-pies","new","nothing","poem","poetry","politicians","poor","poverty","problem","proclaims","quote","religion","religious","revolution","ruin","scar","scars","seas","smile","sneers","society","stars","trees","true","war","wars","wash","wisdom","wise","world","years"],"id":291439,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}