{"quotes":[{"text":"The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.","author":"Colin S. Smith","tags":["god","lifestyle","ten-commandments","values","worship"],"id":15342,"author_id":"Colin+S.+Smith"},{"text":"Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?","author":"Colin S. Smith","tags":["christian-ministry","god","idolatry","ministry","service","ten-commandments"],"id":31947,"author_id":"Colin+S.+Smith"},{"text":"Love of God,' he said slowly, searching for words, 'is not alwaysthe same as love of good, I wish it were that simple. We know whatis good, it is written in the Commandments. But God is notcontained only in the Commandments, you know; they are only aninfinitesimal part of Him. A man may abide by the Commandmentsand be far from God.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["god","good","infinitesimal","love","narcissus","ten-commandments"],"id":44745,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.","author":"Colin S. Smith","tags":["god","idolatry","struggle","ten-commandments","the-ten-commandments"],"id":52485,"author_id":"Colin+S.+Smith"},{"text":"Creationists have also changed their name ... To intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammurabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.","author":"Michael Shermer","tags":["code-of-hammurabi","creation-myths","creationists","evolution","first-amendment","god-did-it","goddidit","hammurabi","intelligent-design","irreducible-complexity","jargon","myths","native-american","origin-of-life","pseudoscience","school","science","separation-of-church-and-state","sophistry","superstition","ten-commandments"],"id":95495,"author_id":"Michael+Shermer"},{"text":"The only good understanding is to obey the God's commandment.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","grace","obey-god","ten-commandments","understanding"],"id":164859,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. Unless you think you have a good reason.","author":"Willie Nelson","tags":["moses","peace","peace-on-earth","ten-commandments","war"],"id":188642,"author_id":"Willie+Nelson"},{"text":"Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.","author":"Colin S. Smith","tags":["abortion","bible","god","human-life","life","sanctity-of-life","ten-commandments"],"id":201407,"author_id":"Colin+S.+Smith"},{"text":"On my journey from the fantastical to the practical, spirituality has gone from being a mystical experience to something very ordinary and a daily experience. Many don’t want this, instead they prefer spiritual grandeur, and I believe that is what keeps enlightenment at bay. We want big revelations of complexity that validates our perceptions of the divine. What a let down it was to Moses when God spoke through a burning bush! But that is exactly the simplicity of it all. Our spiritual life is our ordinary life and it is very grounded in every day experience. For me, it is the daily practice of kindness, mindfulness, happiness, and peace.","author":"Alaric Hutchinson","tags":["archetypes","buddha","buddhism","compassion","consciousness","divine","divinity","empathy","enlightenment","fantasy","god","grace","happiness","inner-peace","inspirational","jesus","jesus-christ","kindness","mindfulness","monk","moses","motivational","mystic","mysticism","peace","practical-theology","practice","prophet","psychology","self-discipline","spiritual","spirituality","sympathy","ten-commandments","theology","wisdom","zen","zen-buddhism"],"id":210918,"author_id":"Alaric+Hutchinson"},{"text":"When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our ethical views evolve, your code becomes less relevant. You could find yourself with four of ten divine moral laws describing how to treat God and zero that prohibit rape or slavery.","author":"David G. McAfee","tags":["10-commandments","evolve","moral-code","morality","stone-tablet","ten-commandments"],"id":251119,"author_id":"David+G.+McAfee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}