{"quotes":[{"text":"Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his patients and the human dramas they confront. In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, he said that most young people seem to be protected for a time by an imaginary membrane that shields them from horror. They walk in it every day but are hardly aware of its presence. As the immune system protects the human body from the unseen threat of harmful bacteria, so this mythical membrane guards them from life-threatening situations. Not every young person has this protection, of course, because children do die of cancer, congenital heart problems, and other disorders. But most of them are shielded—and don’t realize it. Then, as years roll by, one day it happens. Without warning, the membrane tears, and horror seeps into a person’s life or into the life of a loved one. It is at this moment that an unexpected theological crisis presents itself.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["and","aware","bacteria","be","beautiful","body","book","by","cancer","children","compassionate","confront","congenital-heart-problems","crisis","descriptions","die","disorders","do","doctor-richard-selzer","don-t","dramas","every","every-day","from","guards","happens","hardly","harmful","his","horror","human","imaginary","immune-system","into","it","its","itself","letters-to-a-young-doctor","life","life-threatening","loved-one","membrane","moment","most","mythical","not","of","one-day","other","patients","people","person","person-s","presence","presents","protected","protection","protects","realize","roll","seem","seeps","shields","situations","surgeon","tears","the","them","theological","they","threat","time","to","unexpected","unseen","walk","warning","without","years","young"],"id":28622,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"Buddha lets me see the world in color so that I can appreciate its color.Just as God too lets you see the color of beauty in the world.And so too with Allah because he lets you see the beauty in everything.....I cannot begin to understand all religions, but I know one thing.Color brings love into our world regardless of who we are; what we preach or what we believe in.And to me, that is the only truth that I know.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["allah","beauty","because","buddha","color","colour","faith","god","into","life","love","philosophy","philosophy-of-religion","preach","regardless","religion","see","truth","understand","world"],"id":34579,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"Imagine, if you will:A bright yellow star lit the darkness somewhere in deep space, accompanied by its rather dysfunctional family of nine deceptively ordinary-looking planets. During its enormously long lifetime many beings had named it from the far ends of distant telescopes, including it into numerous star clusters and constellations as they were perceived from their vantage points. Once, or maybe twice, creatures simply looked up into their own skies to name it from their own now long dead and deserted worlds. In more recent times, beings from a world that orbited a different sun far away gave it a name too – creatures that called themselves Human, who travelled here and settled on one of its inner planets. The planet they chose to make a new home on? They called that Deanna. They called the star Ramalama.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["a","accompanied","and","as","beings","by","called","chose","constellations","creatures","darkness","deceptively","deserted-worlds","different","distant-telescopes","during","human","imagine","into","many","name","nine","numerous","of","on","one","planets","points","ramalama","simply","somewhere","space","star","themselves","they","times","to","too","twice","vantage","will"],"id":64193,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"What I am recommending to the unmarried person, therefore, comes straight out of the Word: Stay out of bed unless you there alone! I know that advice is difficult to put into practice today. But I didn't make the rules. I'm just passing them along. God's moral laws are not designed to oppress us or deprive us of pleasure. They are there to protect us from the devastation of sin, including disease, heartache, divorce, and spiritual death. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity afterward is the Creator's own plan, and no one has devised a way to improve on it.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["a","advice","alone","bed","creator-s","devastation","devised","difficult","disease","divorce","fidelity","from","god-s","has","heartache","improve","into","it","laws","moral","no-one","on","out","plan","pleasure","practie","protect","put","sin","spiritual-death","stay","to","us","way"],"id":72197,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"Let your discomfort and pain push you into something new.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["discomfort","into","let","new","pain","push","something"],"id":74488,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"I've been toldThat it's not enough toWish for dreams, that IHave to work themInto reality.","author":"Jordan Hoechlin","tags":["into","reality","told","wish"],"id":84169,"author_id":"Jordan+Hoechlin"},{"text":"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["cities","city","doubts","government","governments","ill","illness","induce","inducing","into","no","population","populations","radiation","segment","segments","sick","sickness","their","there","west","western","willfully"],"id":98320,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running through her already agitated mind. From the very beginning of their association, she’d had a bad feeling about Brandon Carver. Something about that guy just never seemed to fit. Sure, he was good looking – but so were many of the other out of work space bums hitch-hiking from place to place she’d also had the misfortune to meet.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["about","agitated","already","as","association","carver","feeling","fit","had","he","hitch-hiking","into","life-pod","looking","meet","mind","of","precisely","sure","that","the","their","was","what"],"id":109642,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["alien","body","environments","human","into","mind","put","states","strange","through","use","you"],"id":118123,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at her caboose all the way down the corridor, from following her inside. Then, almost falling into one of the gravity couches, she hurriedly strapped herself into it before punching the emergency release. She hoped the escape system still worked. It did. The explosive dead-bolts fired, shaking the pod loose, dislodging it from the rapidly disintegrating wreck, just about shaking the crap out of her on its bone-jarring way into the great wide open.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["been","corridor","couches","dead-bolts","did","disintegrating","dislidging","down","emergency","escape","explosive","fired","gravity","her","herself","inside","into","licking","loose","open","rapidly","release","shaking","strapped","system","the","then","to","tracey","way","worked","wreck"],"id":126894,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}