{"quotes":[{"text":"...A world is supported by four things...The learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.","author":"Frank Herberterbert","tags":["justice","learning","prayers","ruling","valor"],"id":584,"author_id":"Frank+Herberterbert"},{"text":"The gift of prayer is priceless gift.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["gift","gift-of-god","gift-of-life","gifts-from-heaven","giving","intercession","intercessor","pray-hard","pray-without-ceasing","prayer","prayer-and-fasting","prayer-religion","prayerful","prayerful-habits","prayerful-life","prayers","prayers-answered","praying","praying-for-enemies","praying-for-love","praying-mind","praying-right","present","priceless","say-a-word-of-prayer"],"id":1907,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["alive","being-in-love","careers","caring","courtship","dating","dreams","exposed","expressed","family","feeling-deeply","feelings","friends","heart","hopes","i-love-you","living","love","moons","night","nightime","openess","poetry","poets","pose","prayers","prayers-of-the-heart","raw","relationships","romantics","sky","stars","wishes"],"id":4662,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"We have reduced the understanding of prayers to incantations.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["prayers","understanding"],"id":7135,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"We pull back our society when we tell people to only pray for miracles.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["miracles","people","prayers","society"],"id":13367,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["actions","be-yourself","belief","believe-in-yourself","concept","creator","destiny","devil","feelings","god","karma","karmic","life","michael-bassey-johnson","mindset","path","perception","philosophy","prayers","reflection","religion","supernatural","thinking","ultimate","unbelievers","worship","worshipping"],"id":15367,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ the beauty of a single sycamore. \tYou are Xerxes in Persia. Your army spreads on a vast and arid peneplain…you call to you all your sad captains, and give the order to halt. You have seen the tree with the lights in it, haven’t you? You must have. Xerxes buffeted on a plain, ambition drained in a puff. Your men are bewildered…there is nothing to catch the eye in this flatness, nothing but a hollow, hammering sky, a waste of sedge in the lee of windblown rocks, a meager ribbon of scrub willow tracing a slumbering watercourse…and that sycamore. You saw it; you will stand rapt and mute, exalted, remembering or not remembering over a period of days to shade your head with your robe. \t“He had its form wrought upon a medal of gold to help him remember it the rest of his life.” We all ought to have a goldsmith following us around. But it goes without saying, doesn’t it, Xerxes, that no gold medal worn around your neck will bring back the glad hour, keep those lights kindled so long as you live, forever present? Pascal saw it; he grabbed pen and paper and scrawled the one word, and wore it sewn in his shirt the rest of his life. I don’t know what Pascal saw. I saw a cedar. Xerxes saw a sycamore.","author":"Annie Dillard","tags":["amen","beauty","belief","consciousness","creation","curiosity","disbelief","energy","enoughness","epiphany","exploration","exultant","faith","fate","fearless","fire","free","freedom","gaps","god","grace","growth","hallelujah","humility","illumination","intricacy","joy","joyful","joyfulness","life-force","light","living-in-the-present-moment","mindfulness","multiplicity","mystery","nature","philosopher-s-stone","philosophy","poem","poet","poetry","power","praise","prayer","prayers","praying","religion","religious-diversity","science","seeing","seeking","soul","spirit","stalking-the-gaps","the-tree-with-the-lights-in-it","tolerance","walking","watching","wonder"],"id":16223,"author_id":"Annie+Dillard"},{"text":"And our tears are an expression of that which we cannot express. Tears are perfect prayer.","author":"Ronald Chapman","tags":["inspirational","prayer","prayers","about-prayer","about-tears","about-tears-and-prayer","ron-chapman","ronald-chapman","tears","tears-as-expression","tears-the-perfect-prayer","the-perfect-prayer"],"id":16969,"author_id":"Ronald+Chapman"},{"text":"Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past them because they don't understand who they have become and never will. These type of people feel justified in revenge and will never learn mercy or forgiveness because they live by comparison. They are the people that don't care about anyone, other than who is making them feel confident. They don’t understand that their deity is not rejoicing with them because of their actions, rather he is trying to free them from their insecurities, by softening their heart. They rather put out your light than find their own. They don't have the ability to see beyond the false sense of happiness they get from destroying others. You know what happiness is and it isn’t this. Don’t see their success as their deliverance. It is a mask of vindication which has no audience, other than their own kind. They have joined countless others that call themselves “survivors”. They believe that they are entitled to win because life didn’t go as planned for them. You are not like them. You were not meant to stay in hell and follow their belief system. You were bound for greatness. You were born to help them by leading. Rise up and be the light home. You were given the gift to see the truth. They will have an army of people that are like them and you are going to feel alone. However, your family in heaven stands beside you now. They are your strength and as countless as the stars. It is time to let go!Love, Your Guardian Angel.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["angels","archeangels","being-unique","believe","believing-in-others","big-dreams","bravery","bullies","caring","caring-too-much","chains","choices","christ","compassion","courage","courageous","crossroads","dante-s-inferno","daughter-of-god","dreams","empowering-women","faithful","family-in-heaven","forgiveness","freedom","future","gideon","god-s-plan","guardian-angel","guardian-angels","harry-potter","harry-potter-related","harry-potter-s-family","hatred","having-a-conscience","having-faith","hell","hell-on-earth","hold-onto-god","holy-ghost","humane","humanity","insecurity","insightful","integrity","jealousy","jedi-warrior","journeys","kindness","kindness-of-strangers","let-go","letting-go","life-purpose","love","loving-one-another","merciful","mercy","moral-conscience","morals","no-coincidences","obstacles","onlyness","pain","pray","prayers","praying-for-others","preexistence","preordination","protection","qreat","removing-chains","revenge","rise-up","see","seeing","self-awareness","self-esteem","self-improvement","self-insight","self-respect","sending-angels","smile","softening-your-heart","sorrow","spirits","stalkers","stay-positive","stayingpositiveuniversity-com","the-rainbow-path","the-red-path","the-white-path","trials","truth","uniqueness","vengeful","wisdom","zion"],"id":21459,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Prayers are a very personal and sacred thing. One prays when one feels like. Feel disgusted when I see people forcing others to pray, carry out certain rituals or chant the prayers loudly on loudspeakers.","author":"Neelam Saxena Chandra","tags":["neelam-chandra","neelam-saxena-chandra","prayers","sacred"],"id":23371,"author_id":"Neelam+Saxena+Chandra"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":196,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}