{"quotes":[{"text":"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accept","agree","agreement","bottom","choice","choices","choose","choosing","create","created","decisions","dig","dug","follow","following","fool","foolish","foolishness","gullibility","gullible","hole","holes","invitation","invitations","life","pit","realization","realize","rock-bottom","wisdom","wise"],"id":8006,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["choices","christian","christianity","decisions","decline","defeat","fool","foolhardy","god","ignorance","ignore","invitation","invite","life","lives","stupid","stupidity","wisdom","wise"],"id":22716,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If you submit to your gift, people will seek and invite you, you will get well paid because you have perfected your gift.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","famous","gift","invitation","money","popular","submission","talent","wealth"],"id":38553,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"To get, simply release, and then gently invite.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["gentleness","invitation","release","simplicity"],"id":56410,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"The words 'believe' and 'repent' are now largely replaced by other terms such as 'Give your life to Christ', 'Open your heart to Christ', 'Do it now', 'Surrender completely', 'Decide for Christ', etc., and in similar language those who profess conversion are sometimes represented as having 'given in'.","author":"Iain H. Murray","tags":["billy-graham","decision","finney","invitation","repentance","revival","salvation"],"id":72775,"author_id":"Iain+H.+Murray"},{"text":"I hate these affairs', he'd told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity ball. 'They're the worst kind of discrimination. An invitation doesn't really mean that you're invited; it means that a whole lot of people aren't.","author":"Melinda Cross","tags":["ball","charity","cross","discrimination","harlequin","invitation","life","melinda","philosophy","poignant","point","view"],"id":73557,"author_id":"Melinda+Cross"},{"text":"Come on in. The water’s fine.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["a-ghost-in-new-orleans","beckoned","come-on-in","invitation","invite","jason-medina","tribal-publications","tribal-publications-inc","water"],"id":73867,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.","author":"Elizabeth Gilbert","tags":["growth","intervention","invitation","learning","mistakes"],"id":82360,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gilbert"},{"text":"To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["adversary","against","challenge","destroy","destruction","down","god","intimidation","invitation","obstacle","stand","up"],"id":89903,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.","author":"Susie Orbach","tags":["stars","become","invitation "],"id":113760,"author_id":"Susie+Orbach"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}