{"quotes":[{"text":"We can get you a throne with snakes. I’ll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his vomit. It’ll be great . . .","author":"Ilona Andrews","tags":["curran","fun","grendel","humor","irony","kate","throne","vomit"],"id":14724,"author_id":"Ilona+Andrews"},{"text":"When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["altar","celebration","community","danger","darkness","destruction","enthrone","god","greed","human-pleasure","ignorance","knowledge","life","light","mountain","nation","people","pleasure","power","throne","ungodliness"],"id":61995,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in all these records of the past, philosophies and dreams, and efforts stained with tears, of great and tender souls who tried to pierce the mystery of life and death, to answer the eternal questions of the Whence and Whither, and vainly sought to make, with bits of shattered glass, a mirror that would, in very truth, reflect the face and form of Nature's perfect self.These myths were born of hopes, and fears, and tears, and smiles, and they were touched and colored by all there is of joy and grief between the rosy dawn of birth, and death's sad night. They clothed even the stars with passion, and gave to gods the faults and frailties of the sons of men. In them, the winds and waves were music, and all the lakes, and streams, and springs,—the mountains, woods and perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy forms. They thrilled the veins of Spring with tremulous desire; made tawny Summer's billowed breast the throne and home of love; filled Autumns arms with sun-kissed grapes, and gathered sheaves; and pictured Winter as a weak old king who felt, like Lear upon his withered face, Cordelia's tears. These myths, though false, are beautiful, and have for many ages and in countless ways, enriched the heart and kindled thought. But if the world were taught that all these things are true and all inspired of God, and that eternal punishment will be the lot of him who dares deny or doubt, the sweetest myth of all the Fable World would lose its beauty, and become a scorned and hateful thing to every brave and thoughtful man.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["absurd","autumn","beautiful","birth","brave","death","delight","deny","doubt","dreams","effort","eternity","fable","fairy","fear","gods","grief","hateful","haunted","hope","joy","king-lear","lake","life","love","mountains","music","mystery","nature","pagan","passion","past","perfection","philosophies","pleasure","poetic","punishment","questions","religion-myths","sacred-books","scorn","shakespeare","smiles","spring","summer","tears","tender","thought","throne","true","truth","william-shakespeare","winter","woods"],"id":64681,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bible","bow","christian","christianity","deceit","deception","fabrication","false-gods","falsehood","fiction","fictional","god","idol","idolatry","idols","illusion","king","sin","sinful-false","throne","worship","worshiping"],"id":66396,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"There's no point in fighting for the throne if you're not going to make a difference.","author":"Rhiannon Thomas","tags":["fantasy","long-may-she-reign","power","queen","queens","throne"],"id":76049,"author_id":"Rhiannon+Thomas"},{"text":"We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["eviction","food-for-thought","god","individual","instruction","israelmore-ayivor","king","kingdom","law","obedience","obedient","obey","obey-the-law","special","success","suffer","talents","throne"],"id":105224,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how they cringed and crawled at the foot of the throne, and in the dust of the altar, of how they abased themselves, of how abjectly they stood in the presence of superstition robed and crowned, I am amazed.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["altar","slavery","suffer","superstition","throne"],"id":116142,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"The Highest Heavens is the throne of the Holy One.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","god","heavens","throne","wise-sayings"],"id":124133,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"KINGDOM OF THE WOMBFrom her thighs, she gives you lifeAnd how you treat she who gives you lifeShows how much you value the life given to you by the Creator.And from seed to dustThere is ONE soul above all others --That you must always show patience, respect, and trustAnd this woman is your mother.And when your soul departs your bodyAnd your deeds are weighed against the featherThere is only one soul who can save yoursAnd this woman is your mother.And when the heart of the universeAsks her hair and mind,Whether you were gentle and kind to herHer heart will be forced to remain silentAnd her hair will speak freely as a separate entity,Very much like the seaweed in the sea --It will reveal all that it has heard and seen.This woman whose heart has seen yours,First before anybody else in the world,And whose womb had opened the doorFor your eyes to experience light and more --Is your very own MOTHER.So, no matter whether your mother has been cruel,Manipulative, abusive, mentally sick, or simply childishHow you treat her is the ultimate test.If she misguides you, forgive her and show her the right wayWith simple wisdom, gentleness, and kindness.And always remember,That the queen in the Creator's kingdom,Who sits on the throne of all existence,Is exactly the same as in yours.And her name is,THE DIVINE MOTHER.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["birth","body","child","creator","divine","divine-mother","divine-wisdom","exist","extistence","feather","female","females","gentle","gentleness","god","goddess","hair","heard","heart","kind","kingdom","life","mind","moms","mother","mother-poem","motherhood","mothering","mothers","name","patience","poem-mother","poetry-mom","poetry-mothersuzy-kassem","queen","respect","seaweed","seen","soul","speak","thighs","throne","trust","truth","universe","value","wisdom","woman","womb","women"],"id":142477,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"On the path to Conquer the throne,some of your pawns must die...If your eyes aim the big kill,you must learn to eat humble pie.","author":"Aamir Sarfraz (aamir rajput khan)","tags":["aim","big-dreams","conquer","die","eyes","humble","inspirational","kill","learn","love","motivational","must","path","pawns","pie","rebel","some","thoughts-on-life","throne","throne-of-glass"],"id":161328,"author_id":"Aamir+Sarfraz+%28aamir+rajput+khan%29"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}