{"quotes":[{"text":"The hunger for change is the desire to make a change.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["change","christianity","citizens","humanity","politics","repentence","revolution","wise-words"],"id":108633,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["acceptance","accountability","adversity","anger","apolgies","arrogance","authentic","being-free","being-real","being-wrong","caring","character","choices","confessing","denial","doing-wrong","freedom","hardened-hearts","honesty","honor","honorable","humble","humility","integrity","mistakes","moving-forward","new-life","not-caring","pride","proud","repentence","sinning","starting-over","truth"],"id":110617,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The cern paled, and all the courageous which accompanied him into the conversation was now all done away. He shrunk back, his audacity dwizzening under the teneberous gloom of the giant’s long shadow. He turned to entreat the help of his fellow soldiers with desperate looks, but there was little more than half of the regiments left behind him, all of them unwilling to intervene, and his bowels rumbled, his heart sinking into the grave of conscience, and never had he felt more mistaken in his conduct.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["giants","regret","repentence","shadow"],"id":116379,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"There is no amount of bad karma that can compete with a contrite spirit and God's forgiveness.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["amnesty","bad-karma","blessed","compassion","contrite-spirit","forgive","forgiveness","healed","introspection","karma","obstacles","repentence","resolved-with-god"],"id":200344,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Our sins are our downfall. We must repent and return to the Lord. And He will receive and forgive us graciously.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["change","christian-life","christianity","divine-intervention","faith","forgive-yourself","forgiveness","ghana","god","grace","hope","humanity","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","nations","new-life","peace","peaceful-world","prayer","repentence","saved-by-grace","saved-from-sins","self-help","self-love","sins","spiritual","strength","warfare-prayers"],"id":240779,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["burdens","ego","egocentric","guilt","remorse","repentence","selfish","weight"],"id":247593,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I have saved by grace. My sins are forgiven. This is my greatest gratitude.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","divine-grace","divine-intervention","faith","forgiven","forgiveness","god","god-s-love","grateful","hope","mercy","repentence","salvation","salvatore","saved-souls","seeking-god","sin-sinner","spiritual","thank-you"],"id":378829,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"True repentance is a turning from sin . . . Humanly speaking, it is our small part in the plan of salvation. Our part is repenting. God will do the converting, the transforming, and the forgiving.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","converting","forgiving","god","repentence","salvation","sin","transforming"],"id":383651,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"What is sin? All wrong doing is a sin.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","forgiveness","holiness","inspirational","repentence","sin"],"id":416897,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"How could we not believe the Lord would guide us? How could we not have faith? For the foundation had been laid in prayer and sorrow. Since that fearful night, Dad has responded with the almost impossible work of belief. He had burned with repentence as though his own hand had fired the gun. He had laid up prayer as if with a trowel.","author":"Leif Enger","tags":["belief","faith","prayer","repentence"],"id":420321,"author_id":"Leif+Enger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}