{"quotes":[{"text":"Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.","author":"Larry Crabb","tags":["change","christ","comfort","repentance","self","sufficiency","turning"],"id":2662,"author_id":"Larry+Crabb"},{"text":"Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than the person they left you for, and the ex finds out, after losing all and regretting. It was a blessing that it ended. Though money wasn't sufficient then, mostly they were rich with your love, now suffering being broke in both.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["blessing","broke","deception","gold-diggers","greed","karma","loss","love","money","patience","regrets","relationship","stupidity","suffer","sufficiency"],"id":38213,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.","author":"Elizabeth I","tags":["bachelorhood","dignity","freedom","good-governance","government","independence","marriage","matrimony","mementos","memory","queens","reign","self-determination","singles","sufficiency","virginity","women"],"id":99849,"author_id":"Elizabeth+I"},{"text":"It is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies.","author":"Gloria Furman","tags":["god","loc1939","sufficiency","weakness"],"id":100031,"author_id":"Gloria+Furman"},{"text":"Down close to certain flowersall excesses are sufficiencies.","author":"David Giannini","tags":["excessiveness","flowers","smelling","sufficiency"],"id":106629,"author_id":"David+Giannini"},{"text":"He embraces all things that are lovely: he seals up the sum of all loveliness. Things that shine as single stars with a particular glory, all meet in Christ as a glorious constellation. Col. 1:19, 'It pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.' Cast your eyes among all created beings, survey the universe: you will observe strength in one, beauty in a second, faithfulness in a third, wisdom in a fourth; but you shall find none excelling in them all as Christ does. Bread has one quality, water another, raiment another, medicine another; but none has them all in itself as Christ does. He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in him, 1 Cor. 1:30.","author":"John Flavel","tags":["beauty","christ","excellency","fullness","gospel-truth","loveliness","sufficiency","supremacy","supremacy-of-christ"],"id":110934,"author_id":"John+Flavel"},{"text":"I guess there are never enough books.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["books","reading","sufficiency"],"id":227882,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).","author":"Anthony Hope","tags":["income","money","sufficiency"],"id":253364,"author_id":"Anthony+Hope"},{"text":"The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.","author":"Brennan Manning","tags":["failure","faith","fear","god","sin","sorrow","sufficiency"],"id":266125,"author_id":"Brennan+Manning"},{"text":"Be not virtuous beyond your powers! And seek nothing from yourselves opposed to probability!...Shy, ashamed, awkward, like the tiger whose spring hath failed—thus, ye higher men, have I often seen you slink aside. A cast which ye made had failed...The higher its type, always the seldomer doth a thing succeed. Ye higher men here, have ye not all—been failures?Be of good cheer; what doth it matter? How much is still possible! Learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh!What wonder even that ye have failed and only half-succeeded, ye half-shattered ones! Doth not—man's future strive and struggle in you?Man's furthest, profoundest, star-highest issues, his prodigious powers—do not all these foam through one another in your vessel?What wonder that many a vessel shattereth! Learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh! Ye higher men, Oh, how much is still possible!","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["acceptance","striving","sufficiency"],"id":294073,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}