{"quotes":[{"text":"Five minutes after something happened might not be the best time for you to get into your Facebook and tell everybody. Men's panic does not produce God's power.","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["art","beauty","books","change","christianity","death","dreams","education","faith","fear","freedom","friendship","funny","god","happiness","heart","history","hope","humor","humour","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge-religion","leadership","life","life-lessons","love","marriage","motivation","motivational","music","nature","pain","peace","people","philosophy","poetry","politics","quotes","reading","relationships","romance","science","self-help","soul","spiritual","spirituality","success","time","truth","war","wisdom","women","writing"],"id":1173,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"},{"text":"Offence is an event, offended is a decision. Offence and offended we have to live through it but to stay offended? To live in that place denies the very nature of the salvation that you claimed to have received.","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["art","beauty","books","change","christianity","death","dreams","education","faith","fear","freedom","friendship","funny","god","happiness","heart","history","hope","humor","humour","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge-religion","leadership","life","life-lessons","love","marriage","motivation","motivational","music","nature","pain","peace","people","philosophy","poetry","politics","quotes","reading","relationships","romance","science","self-help","soul","spiritual","spirituality","success","time","truth","war","wisdom","women","writing"],"id":3341,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"},{"text":"We always think that God's presence is always provided to fix our problems but what if God's presence is more about fixing your perspectives? So that you will have a new way to see your problems. If you didn't make your bed before leaving home this morning, no angel is going to make your bed for you, it is still going to be as you left it till you come back.","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["art","beauty","books","change","christianity","death","dreams","education","faith","fear","freedom","friendship","funny","god","happiness","heart","history","hope","humor","humour","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge-religion","leadership","life","life-lessons","love","marriage","motivation","motivational","music","nature","pain","peace","people","philosophy","poetry","politics","quotes","reading","relationships","romance","science","self-help","soul","spiritual","spirituality","success","time","truth","war","wisdom","women","writing"],"id":14928,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"},{"text":"I don't just have only the peace of God, I do also have a God who gives peace, not just resources but the revelation of His presence.","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["art","beauty","books","change","christianity","death","dreams","education","faith","fear","freedom","friendship","funny","god","happiness","heart","history","hope","humor","humour","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge-religion","leadership","life","life-lessons","love","marriage","motivation","motivational","music","nature","pain","peace","people","philosophy","poetry","politics","quotes","reading","relationships","romance","science","self-help","soul","spiritual","spirituality","success","time","truth","war","wisdom","women","writing"],"id":23746,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"},{"text":"Before we can fix the situation, we have to first see the situation, the world can't see straight right now, some are blinded by hatred, rage, fear, scepticism, some are blinded by their pains.We need to pray...Pray that God open our eyes to see the problem from the source and not from the surface.You cannot solve a situation that you cannot see correctly.","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["art","beauty","books","change","christianity","death","dreams","education","faith","fear","freedom","friendship","funny","god","happiness","heart","history","hope","humor","humour","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge-religion","leadership","life","life-lessons","love","marriage","motivation","motivational","music","nature","pain","peace","people","philosophy","poetry","politics","quotes","reading","relationships","romance","science","self-help","soul","spiritual","spirituality","success","time","truth","war","wisdom","women","writing"],"id":26145,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"},{"text":"My faith gives me the ability to say, whatever is next, I'm ready. If it is Hillary or Trump I am ready because they might sit on the desk but they do not sit on the throne.","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["art","beauty","books","change","christianity","death","dreams","education","faith","fear","freedom","friendship","funny","god","happiness","heart","history","hope","humor","humour","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge-religion","leadership","life","life-lessons","love","marriage","motivation","motivational","music","nature","pain","peace","people","philosophy","poetry","politics","quotes","reading","relationships","romance","science","self-help","soul","spiritual","spirituality","success","time","truth","war","wisdom","women","writing"],"id":26253,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"},{"text":"Blind barthimus used his mouth and his feet to affect what wasn't working in his life? What do you use to affect what's not working in your life? God is not interested in your perfection, He is interested in your participation. It is your participation that attracts the presence of God.","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["art","beauty","books","change","christianity","death","dreams","education","faith","fear","freedom","friendship","funny","god","happiness","heart","history","hope","humor","humour","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge-religion","leadership","life","life-lessons","love","marriage","motivation","motivational","music","nature","pain","peace","people","philosophy","poetry","politics","quotes","reading","relationships","romance","science","self-help","soul","spiritual","spirituality","success","time","truth","war","wisdom","women","writing"],"id":26983,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"},{"text":"If you work by faith and not by sight, you will always see a sign. You have to develop a space of comfort to know that there is a difference between signs and sounds, it means God will tell you that He will make a change in your life but He won't show you anything to demonstrate the change for a little while because He doesn't want your faith to be in the change; He wants your faith to be in the promise, so that when the change is a bit slow in coming, you will know how to trust in Him while you wait for it to come to pass.","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["art","beauty","books","change","christianity","death","dreams","education","faith","fear","freedom","friendship","funny","god","happiness","heart","history","hope","humor","humour","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge-religion","leadership","life","life-lessons","love","marriage","motivation","motivational","music","nature","pain","peace","people","philosophy","poetry","politics","quotes","reading","relationships","romance","science","self-help","soul","spiritual","spirituality","success","time","truth","war","wisdom","women","writing"],"id":27276,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"},{"text":"Some people want to kill goliath but they do not want to attend to sheep. How can God use you to kill giants if you cannot follow simple instructions?","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["art","beauty","books","change","christianity","death","dreams","education","faith","fear","freedom","friendship","funny","god","happiness","heart","history","hope","humor","humour","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge-religion","leadership","life","life-lessons","love","marriage","motivation","motivational","music","nature","pain","peace","people","philosophy","poetry","politics","quotes","reading","relationships","romance","science","self-help","soul","spiritual","spirituality","success","time","truth","war","wisdom","women","writing"],"id":36986,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"},{"text":"Sometimes we want God to use us to do big things when we would not even want to do the basics.","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["art","beauty","books","change","christianity","death","dreams","education","faith","fear","freedom","friendship","funny","god","happiness","heart","history","hope","humor","humour","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge-religion","leadership","life","life-lessons","love","marriage","motivation","motivational","music","nature","pain","peace","people","philosophy","poetry","politics","quotes","reading","relationships","romance","science","self-help","soul","spiritual","spirituality","success","time","truth","war","wisdom","women","writing"],"id":42904,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":121,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}