{"quotes":[{"text":"Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["attitude","canny","change","cunning","current","deception","door","fake","fresh","funny","gain","hack","heart","ignite","illusion","impostor","latest","manipulation","passion","recent","temporary","thief","transformation","transience","treachery","trick"],"id":155609,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.","author":"Brennan Manning","tags":["christianity","faith","feelings","gentleness","impostor","prayer","sin"],"id":185279,"author_id":"Brennan+Manning"},{"text":"What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men of God, others use the new laws of anti-religious anger to tear down men of God.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","anger","anti-religion","anti-theism","antireligion","antitheism","apologetics","atheism","bible","christian","discernment","false-prophets","god","grace","hate","hypocrisy","impostor","judgment","law","legalism","love","mercy","pharisees","pride","religion","sin","skepticism","theism","theology"],"id":322452,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.","author":"Brennan Manning","tags":["beloved","christianity","god","identity","impostor","simplicity","spiritual-life"],"id":446985,"author_id":"Brennan+Manning"},{"text":"The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most dishonourable belief against the character of the divinity, the most destructive to morality, and the peace and happiness of man, that ever was propagated since man began to exist. It is better, far better, that we admitted, if it were possible, a thousand devils to roam at large, and to preach publicly the doctrine of devils, if there were any such, than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God in his mouth, and have credit among us.Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death and religious wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called revealed religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man? The lies of the Bible have been the cause of the one, and the lies of the Testament of the other.","author":"Thomas Paine","tags":["affliction","ashes","assassinations","belief","bible","blood","credit","cruelty","death","detestable","devils","dishonourable","doctrine","europe","happiness","horrid","impostor","joshua","lies","misery","monster","morality","moses","origin","peace","persecutions","prophets","religion","religious-wars","revealed-religion","revelation","samuel","testament","the-bible","torture","war","wickedness","word-of-god"],"id":470930,"author_id":"Thomas+Paine"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}