{"quotes":[{"text":"We understood it was possible to know things one was not supposed to know…” Lone Walk From Panther Creek.","author":"Kat Kaelin","tags":["death","faith","family-drama","family-life","hope","life","religion-philosophy","supernatural","unknown"],"id":46380,"author_id":"Kat+Kaelin"},{"text":"We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","ambition","attitude-toward-life","challenges-of-life","christian","christian-living","courage","dark-times","despaire","determination","difficult-times","disappointment","encouraging","enthusiasm-inspiration","faith","fearless","fighting-spirit","greatness","hard-times","healing","hope","hopeful","inner-strength","inspirational","inspiring","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","lessons-learned-in-life","lessons-learnt","optimism","overcomer","overcoming-adversity","overcoming-fears","persistent-effort","positive","religion-philosophy","religious-faith","religious","self-help","self-motivation","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","strength-of-character","strength-through-adversity","triumph","uplifting","warfare-prayers","warriors","wisdom"],"id":60228,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If have the gift of prophesy, all wisdom and knowledge and have no love, I have failed to manifest my true soul.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["belief","believe-in-god","bible","christian-life","christian","christianity-faith","educational","failure","gift-of-god","gifts","inspirational","inspired-action","inspired","love","lovers-quarrel","lovers","manifest-destiny","manifesting-love","prophecy","relationship","religion-philosophy","religious","religious-faith","romance-book","romance","soul","spiritual","spiritual-wisdom","wisdom-inspirational","wisdom-knowledge-ignorance","wisdom","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":74628,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Do you really think anyone needs some kind of notarized statement saying \t'Dear Saint Peter, here's another stiff, pass him through the gates, signed, Father McGonnigill.'...'PS: He once had a hot dog on a Friday, but don't hold that against him.'. ","author":"P.N. Elrod","tags":["death-and-dying","funerals","lady-crymsyn","religion-philosophy","vampire-files"],"id":118486,"author_id":"P.N.+Elrod"},{"text":"If you don’t act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["free-thinking","fundamentalism","inspiration","inspirational","inspiring","inspiring","rational-thinking","religion-and-science","religion-philosophy","religious-extremism","religious-violence"],"id":147046,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ‘O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee’?","author":"Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi","tags":["divine-intuition","divine-love","divine-revelation","divine-truth","god","god-s-love","godliness","heaven","heavenly-rewards","paradise","prayer","prayer-worship","religion-philosophy","religion-spirituality","religious","spirituality","sufis","sufism","worship","worshipping"],"id":206658,"author_id":"Riaz+Ahmed+Gohar+Shahi"},{"text":"If Christians read the Holy Bible, they know the Lord Jesus Christ.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["belief","bible-study","chris","christian","jesus","read","religion","religion-philosophy","wise-words"],"id":210121,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"It is easier to be angry. It is easier to hate. It is easier to knock someone down. Those are surface level emotions. It is much harder to be tolerant, to seek wisdom and understand, to stop and evaluate your response even can be pretty challenging. Hate is born of ignorance. We are so distracted that living with any depth is such an oversight as a society. We must learn to love and to stop and think. All of which spending time in meditation with the word of God gives us. But who has time for that?","author":"Frances Muenzner Titus","tags":["philosophy","philosophy-of-life","philosophy","religion-philosophy"],"id":341464,"author_id":"Frances+Muenzner+Titus"},{"text":"The grace of prayer is an act of seeking to communicate with divine power.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["divine-power","faith","faith-strength","fellowship","fellowship-with-christ","god-s-grace","god-s-word","gods-will","grace-and-favor","grace-grace-divine","grace-of-god","prayer","prayer-life","prayers-answered","praying","praying-for-love","religion-christianity","religion-philosophy","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality"],"id":343949,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.).","author":"Alvin Plantinga","tags":["alvin-plantinga","christian","christian-living","christian-philosophy","christianity","god","inspirational","philosophy","religion","religion-philosophy","theology"],"id":361901,"author_id":"Alvin+Plantinga"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}