{"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":"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["image","infinite","itself "],"id":35279,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"},{"text":"Business is in itself a power.","author":"Garet Garrett","tags":["power","itself "],"id":50724,"author_id":"Garet+Garrett"},{"text":"The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["church","churches","emphasis","four","god","home","how","itself","keeping","love","not","places","protestants","prove","quality","rather","their","through","told","walls","were","work","works"],"id":58941,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.","author":"Walter Pater","tags":["end","fruit","itself "],"id":81319,"author_id":"Walter+Pater"},{"text":"History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["factual","history","itself","life","measure","philosophy","reading","repeat","truth"],"id":82319,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.","author":"Georges Braque","tags":["reality","only","itself "],"id":93750,"author_id":"Georges+Braque"},{"text":"As important as increase is, it is not an end in itself.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["as","end","important","increase","itself","not"],"id":126718,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.","author":"Abraham Maslow","tags":["passion","real","itself "],"id":133727,"author_id":"Abraham+Maslow"},{"text":"Simplicity within itself is just another complication.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["another","complication","easy","hard","itself","just","life","phiolosphy","simplicity"],"id":140861,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}