[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f1UZgaOKLxAucNmRkKC-Kyj95ifgV1SrTQF3esilpWSI":3,"$fSveOYk-j1LpySmCWzPYx9aACu4YmSB0xGSKYGvpvwwU":12},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"bio_jsonld":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},2991,"Ron Hall","R",61,null,"ron-hall",[],{"quotes":13,"pagination":78},[14,23,29,35,41,47,53,59,65,72],{"id":15,"quote_text":16,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":19,"source":20,"quote_tag":21,"commentary":22},3913925,"Someone that you obviously can trust and someone that you would trust your life with - that's a really good friend.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nRon Hall, a renowned author and philanthropist, likely shared these words during his years spent working with marginalized communities, particularly homeless youth. His experiences as a missionary and evangelist in New York City's streets (late 1990s to early 2000s) deeply influenced his perspective on friendship and trust. It was amidst this backdrop of social inequality and personal transformation that Hall came to understand the essence of true companionship.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nHall's quote subtly suggests that trust is not simply a product of emotional connection or shared experiences but rather an outcome of putting one's life on the line for another person. This requires a level of vulnerability, exposure, and risk-taking that most people avoid in their relationships. By emphasizing the idea that you would entrust your life to this individual, Hall implies that trust is not something you give freely, but rather it's earned through shared struggles and sacrifice.\n\n**How to Use This**\nIn applying Ron Hall's insight today, professionals or creatives can cultivate deeper friendships by being willing to take calculated risks and expose their vulnerabilities with a chosen few. By putting the well-being of others before one's own interests, you foster an environment where trust becomes a reciprocal and sustainable force in your relationships.",{"id":24,"quote_text":25,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":26,"source":27,"quote_tag":28,"commentary":9},3913919,"If Christians want to be the hands and feet of Christ, we need to not judge those that are different from us.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":30,"quote_text":31,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":32,"source":33,"quote_tag":34,"commentary":9},3913912,"It's not the color of our skin that divides our nation; it's the condition of our hearts.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":36,"quote_text":37,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":38,"source":39,"quote_tag":40,"commentary":9},3913904,"I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":42,"quote_text":43,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":44,"source":45,"quote_tag":46,"commentary":9},3913898,"The biggest misconception about the homeless is that they got themselves in the mess - let them get themselves out. Many people think they are simply lazy. I urge those to make a friend at a local mission and find out how wrong these assumptions are.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":48,"quote_text":49,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":50,"source":51,"quote_tag":52,"commentary":9},3913894,"Any time you approach anything in fear and aggression or in self-preservation mode, you are going to scare people off. But if you go in love, with the idea of being the feet and hands of Christ, if you go with the idea of showing the love of Christ, then they become softened because love changes all.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":54,"quote_text":55,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":56,"source":57,"quote_tag":58,"commentary":9},3913888,"Most people never really sat down and got to know a homeless person, but every homeless person is just a real person that was created by God and it is the same kind of different as us; they just have a different story.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":60,"quote_text":61,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":62,"source":63,"quote_tag":64,"commentary":9},3913883,"Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":66,"quote_text":67,"author_id":5,"source_id":68,"has_image":18,"author":69,"source":70,"quote_tag":71,"commentary":9},3397057,"Just tell em I’m a nobody that’s tryin to tell everbody ’bout Somebody that can save anybody. That’s all you need to tell em.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":73,"quote_text":74,"author_id":5,"source_id":68,"has_image":18,"author":75,"source":76,"quote_tag":77,"commentary":9},3397053,"I have learned that I cannot see into a person’s heart to know his spiritual condition. All I can do is tell the jagged tale of my own spiritual journey and declare that my life has been the better for having followed Christ.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":79,"totalPages":17,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":80},1,10]