{"quotes":[{"text":"Sinning when alone is easy but Worshipping alone is difficult.","author":"Dr Paul Gitwaza","tags":["alone","christianity","churches","difficult","easy-way","god","humility","religion-and-philosophy","sinning","worship"],"id":51462,"author_id":"Dr+Paul+Gitwaza"},{"text":"Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["believes","church","hypocrisy","hypocrites","immorality","judgement","religion","self-righteous","sinning"],"id":61859,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Values aren't buses,' she said shortly. 'They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd rather be touchy-feely than morally bankrupt.","author":"Jennifer Crusie","tags":["buses","morality","morals","sinning","sins","values"],"id":70393,"author_id":"Jennifer+Crusie"},{"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":"There is no sinner like a young saint.","author":"Aphra Behn","tags":["goodness","saints","sin","sinning"],"id":139193,"author_id":"Aphra+Behn"},{"text":"I was taught that you can’t expect to be forgiven when you continuously commit the same sin over and over again.","author":"J.B. McGee","tags":["bradley-banks","forgiven","forgiveness","j-b-mcgee","jb-mcgee","sinning"],"id":190357,"author_id":"J.B.+McGee"},{"text":"God told us to love everyone. However, when you don’t like someone then you need to walk away and focus not on him or her, but the hatred you’re harboring. Otherwise, you will allow your piety to take over. Before you know it, you’re using the gospel as a sword to slice other religious people apart, which have offended you. From your point of helplessness, it will be is easy to recruit people that will mistake your kindness as righteousness, when in reality it is a hidden agenda to humiliate through the words of Christ. This game is so often used by women in the Christian faith, that it is the number one reason why many people become inactive. It is a silent, unspoken hypocrisy that is inconsistent with the teachings of the gospel. If you choose not to like someone, then avoid them. If you wish to love them, the only way to overcome your frustrations is through empathy, prayer, forgiveness and allowing yourself time to heal through distance. Try focusing on what you share as sisters in the gospel, rather than the negative aspects you dislike about that person.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anger","authentic-self","being-real","being-right","bittnerness","blame-shifters","blamers","blaming","christian-women","christianity-crisis","delusions","distance","fake-kindness","fake-love","false-christianity","false-love-of-christ","games","hatred","hazing","healing-others","hypocrisy","inactive-members","lack-of-communication","lessons-i-learned","listen","manipulation","need-to-be-right","no-grace","observations","pastoral-partners","pastors","pharisees","polite-hypocrisy","problems-with-religion","religions","ruining-testimonies","see-yourself","self-righteousness","sensitivity","sinning","sisterhood","unspoken-hypocrisy","walk-away","way-off-track","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":260834,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["comfort","daughters-of-god","forgiveness","god","grace","growth","imperfection","learning","life","life-experiences","living","mistakes","peace","repentance","sinners","sinning","sons-of-god","spirituality","temptation","wisdom"],"id":310789,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us,and give us a new power to overcome that sin.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","forgive","god","sin","sinning"],"id":419436,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"I'm going to Hell in a basketWeaved in from my sinsLike wickerWith little Wiccan tiesAs if I'm a witchAccused.","author":"Matthew Little","tags":["glbt","poetry","self-loathing","self-pity","sin","sinning"],"id":426076,"author_id":"Matthew+Little"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}