{"quotes":[{"text":"Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["arrogance","greatness","humility","inadequacy","insecurity","wisdom-inspirational","wisdom"],"id":62602,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.","author":"Mary E. DeMuth","tags":["freedom","god","hurt","inadequacy","religion","set-free","slavery","truth"],"id":64880,"author_id":"Mary+E.+DeMuth"},{"text":"But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["confidence","fear","inadequacy","writing"],"id":65211,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared.","author":"Leila Aboulela","tags":["despair","first-steps","goodness","hope","inadequacy","revertion","straight-path"],"id":85362,"author_id":"Leila+Aboulela"},{"text":"Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate to achieve either? And how long will it take me to realize that if I doggedly refuse to pass by God, my inadequacy is instantly irrelevant and I have in actuality begun to achieve these very things.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["ability","accomplishments","calling","change","confidence","god","inadequacy"],"id":93518,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Rules are made to be broken, but hearts are broken to be made.It is a big miracle to be loved 'because' of your inadequacies, not 'despite' them. And nothing can be as fascinating as walking tall on the same road that once witnessed your fall.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["break-up","breaking-up","fascinating","giving","heart","heartbreak","inadequacy","leaving","love","marriage","miracle","moving-on","relationship","road","romance","rules"],"id":111329,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flankedby things too wonderful for me.","author":"Bryana Johnson","tags":["bible","confession","god","humility","inadequacy","job","poetry"],"id":125181,"author_id":"Bryana+Johnson"},{"text":"Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["altruism","anarchy","ancap","attachment","charity","expertise","freedom","generosity","help","helping-others","humanitarian","humanitarianism","inadequacy","individual","individualism","laissez-faire","love","peace","philosophy","private-charity","psychology","rational","rationality","relationships","rights","sacrifice","self-knowledge","statism","voluntaryism","welfare-state"],"id":125324,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.","author":"Edna O'Brien","tags":["comment","depth","emotion","inadequacy"],"id":169938,"author_id":"Edna+O%27Brien"},{"text":"Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["articulate","big","bigger","communicate","god","inadequacy","inadequate","limitations","limits","possibilities","possible","pray","prayer","praying","understand","understanding","vast"],"id":196883,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}