{"quotes":[{"text":"God can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is to make you not to realize it that the storm is over. He wishes to keep you in condemnation even at the time you have to feel liberated.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["arcbishop","bishop","christ","condemn","condemnation","devil","endurance","endure","evil","feel","food-for-thought","garden-of-eden","god","israelmore-ayivor","jesus","jesus-christ","liberation","liberty","love","low-self-esteem","low-self-image","mind","pastor","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","redeem","redemption","reverend","salvation","satan","save","self-condemnation","self-unworthiness","sin","storm","storms","success","unworthiness","win"],"id":83668,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm definitely not religious, and I'm very tired of the preachiness and obsession with other people's behavior characteristic of many religious people in the United States. As far as I could tell, there's nothing preachy about Buddhism. I was in a lot of temples, and I still don't know what Buddhists believe, except that at one point Kunio said 'If you do bad things, you will be reborn as an ox.'This makes as much sense to me as anything I ever heard from, for example, the Reverend Pat Robertson.","author":"Dave Barry","tags":["buddhism","buddhists","humor","japanese","japanese-religion","junio","moral","obsession","pat-robertson","preachiness","reincarnation","religious-people","reverend","sense","temples","united-states"],"id":118994,"author_id":"Dave+Barry"},{"text":"If you reverend God, you shall respect all souls.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["god","respect","reverend","wise-words"],"id":137384,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Adversity or opportunity is university.","author":"Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha","tags":["2016","adversity","goodread","google","ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha","opportunity","quote","reverend","thought","university","wisdom"],"id":322619,"author_id":"Ifeanyi+Enoch+Onuoha"},{"text":"What you are afraid of is also afraid of you face your fear! ","author":"Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha","tags":["fear","inspiration","life-coach","motivation","pastor","quote","reverend","wisdom"],"id":340638,"author_id":"Ifeanyi+Enoch+Onuoha"},{"text":"I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["america","american","apologetics","bible","biblical","christ","church","glory","god","hope","pastor","philosophy","preaching","priest","prophet","reverend","scripture","sermon","teaching","theology","truth","universal"],"id":344632,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The Reverence of God is reverence for life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["god","inspiring","life","reverend","wise-words"],"id":352810,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"She’s my hero. Everything good and decent that I am is because of my mother.","author":"Katie Ashley","tags":["biker-romance","good","hero","inspirational","mother","motherhood","reverend"],"id":355581,"author_id":"Katie+Ashley"},{"text":"Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and ask for his permission to assist him in doing it.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["anytime","arcbishop","ask","bishop","christ","clergy","evangelism","evangelist","extra","extra-mile","food-for-thought","god","god-s-work","idle","israelmore-ayivor","jesus","jesus-christ","lazy","look-around","pastor","permison","preach","preach-the-word","reverend"],"id":401560,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and truth in this country if you'll just get yourself called Reverend. People like that should be out in the street, shouting and hollering with a cardboard sign and selling pencils from a cup.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["abortion","christian","church","crime","dogma","eye-opening","faith","free-thinkers","freedom","genius","liberty","morality","offenses","pastor","pro-choice","pro-life","religion","religious","republican","reverend","sad-truth","separation-of-church-and-state","spirituality","terrorism","truth"],"id":426026,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}