{"quotes":[{"text":"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.","author":"Nelson Mandela","tags":["atonement","saints","sin","sinners"],"id":5540,"author_id":"Nelson+Mandela"},{"text":"Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting, hungering, seeking! And the great sinners came closer to Him than the proud intellectuals! Pride swells and inflates the ego; gross sinners are depressed, deflated and empty. They, therefore, have room for God. God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless 'saint'. Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth; the man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows.","author":"Fulton J. Sheen","tags":["god","humility","intellectuals","sinners"],"id":6937,"author_id":"Fulton+J.+Sheen"},{"text":"Our magazine covers frequently feature the immoral, the perverted, the psychologically sick. Sin is “in.” People don’t like to be told they are sinners.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","immoral","perverted","sick","sin","sinners"],"id":22802,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["belief","belief","faith","faith","holier","holier-than-thou","saint","saint","sainthood","sin","sinner","sinners"],"id":25216,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","bad-decisions","decisions","depravity","ego","egotistical","fallen","foolish","humility","inconsiderate","love","pride","self-centered","selfish","sin","sinners"],"id":38923,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","afterlife-hereafter","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","casket","caskets","coffin","coffins","dead","death","deep","denial-of-death","devil","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","evil","funeral","funeral-parlor","funeral-parlors","funeral-parlour","funeral-parlours","funerals","gnome","gnomes","god","heaven","hell","humor","humour","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","materialism","materialistic","maxim","maxims","poor","poverty","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","religion","religious","rest-in-peace","rich","riches","rip","satan","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","show-off","sin","sinner","sinners","thought-provoking","thoughtful","wealth","wealthy"],"id":39761,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Being a “friend of sinners” is an accusation that Christians should wear as a badge of honor, for nothing could honor Jesus more, and nothing is more revealing of who God actually is.","author":"Ronnie McBrayer","tags":["jesus","sinners","welcome"],"id":45030,"author_id":"Ronnie+McBrayer"},{"text":"No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["preach","preach-what-you-do","preacher","preaching","preaching-gospel","preaching","sin","sinner","sinners","sinners-like-me"],"id":45612,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.","author":"Brennan Manning","tags":["compassion","forgive","ragamuffin","sin","sinners"],"id":57303,"author_id":"Brennan+Manning"},{"text":"Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?","author":"Donna Tartt","tags":["black-sheep","redemption","sin","sinners"],"id":57531,"author_id":"Donna+Tartt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}