{"quotes":[{"text":"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blessings","choices","compassion","empathy","faith","family","family-s-our-forever","fights","forgiving","healing","illness","learning","lessons","loss-of-family","loss-of-sister","love","mending","mental-disorders","misunderstanding","never-or-forever","obedience","redemption","religion","repairing","restoring","sisters","spiritual-journeys","spiritual-paths","tests","trials","wellness"],"id":6611,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"A man worth being with is one…That never lies to youIs kind to people that have hurt himA person that respects another’s lifeThat has manners and shows people respectThat goes out of his way to help peopleThat feels every person, no matter how difficult, deserves compassionWho believes you are the most beautiful person he has ever metWho brags about your accomplishments with prideWho talks to you about anything and everything because no bad news will make him love you lessThat is a peacemakerThat will see you through illnessWho keeps his promisesWho doesn’t blame others, but finds the good in them That raises you up and motivates you to reach for the starsThat doesn’t need fame, money or anything materialistic to be happyThat is gentle and patient with childrenWho won’t let you lie to yourself; he tells you what you need to hear, in order to help you growWho lives what he says he believes inWho doesn’t hold a grudge or hold onto the past Who doesn’t ask his family members to deliberately hurt people that have hurt himWho will run with your dreamsThat makes you laugh at the world and yourselfWho forgives and is quick to apologizeWho doesn’t betray you by having inappropriate conversations with other womenWho doesn’t react when he is angry, decides when he is sad or keep promises he doesn’t plan to keepWho takes his children’s spiritual life very seriously and teaches by exampleWho never seeks revenge or would ever put another person downWho communicates to solve problemsWho doesn’t play games or passive aggressively ignores people to hurt themWho is real and doesn’t pretend to be something he is notWho has the power to free you from yourself through his positive outlookWho has a deep respect for women and treats them like a daughter of GodWho doesn’t have an ego or believes he is better than anyoneWho is labeled constantly by people as the nicest person they have ever metWho works hard to provide for the familyWho doesn’t feel the need to drink alcohol to have a good time, smoke or do drugsWho doesn't have to hang out a bar with his friends, but would rather spend his time with his familyWho is morally free from sinWho sees your potential to be greatWho doesn't think a woman's place has to be in the home; he supports your life mission, where ever that takes youWho is a gentlemanWho is honest and lives with integrityWho never discusses your private business with anyoneWho will protect his familyWho forgives, forgets, repairs and restoresWhen you find a man that possesses these traits then all the little things you don’t have in common don’t matter. This is the type of man worth being grateful for.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["be-selective","best-choice","best-friend","blessed","christ-like","dating","father","freedom","friendship","god-s-plan","grateful","gratitude","happiness","honorable-man","husband","jealous-women","jim-alder","joy","joyful","king-of-the-kingdom","life-partner","life-partners","lucky-girl","lucky-me","marriage","mate","my-husband","partner","positive-outlook","qualities","revelations","righteous-man","selection","spiritual-man","staying-positive","tests","the-best","the-man","winning"],"id":13851,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution: this central concept of modern biology is no longer one among many other possible or even conceivable hypotheses. It is today the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. And nothing warrants the supposition - or the hope - that on this score our position is ever likely to be revised. There is no scientific concept, in any of the sciences, more destructive of anthropocentrism than this one.","author":"Jacques Monod","tags":["anthropocentrism","biology","biosphere","central-concept","chance","evidence","fact","facts","hope","hypothesis","innovation","observation","science","tests"],"id":19574,"author_id":"Jacques+Monod"},{"text":"What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activism","adhd","tests"],"id":21682,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["academics","cheating","cliche","college","confidence","dignity","exams","games","honesty","honor","honor-code","insecurity","insult","integrity","losing","lying","mental","noble","personal","psychology","quizzes","school","sin","sincerity","sports","subliminal","subsconscious","tests","whisper","winning"],"id":22420,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was not the way final exams were supposed to go.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["demanding-teachers","exams","expectations","surprises","tests","violence"],"id":34159,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"},{"text":"Every time we face tests and trials, God is instigating us to action.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["action","face","god","instigating","tests","trials"],"id":44910,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"When someone has had an exceptionally challenging or difficult earthly life, those challenges are often by design. Our Master will test those who are ready to expand. The struggles are designed to increase one’s strength and to be a springboard into higher realms.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["challenges","difficulty","god","increase","test","tests"],"id":59271,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"Oh, he was a decent-enough high school student, good grades and well-liked, but his test scores were nothing to write home about. He might as well have Christmas-treed the math test.","author":"Thomas Christopher Greene","tags":["school","tests","urban-slang"],"id":88177,"author_id":"Thomas+Christopher+Greene"},{"text":"Tests and persecutions will eventually lead to deliverance from bondage and make us stronger if we respond right to them.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["bondage","deliverance","lead","persecutions","respond","right","stronger","tests"],"id":93817,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}