#ren

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#strength #faith

Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me. ↗

— Hannah Kahn

#parenting #faith

This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two. ↗

— Joanna Brooks

#lds #faith

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#burdens #faith #god #love #relationships

I really want to believe that when our Quiet Waters kids wake up in the middle of the night, scared, they’ll remember being in their bunks with John and Kate and Whit and me right there protecting them,” he said. “I hope we gave them that sense of belonging because I know there’ll be times in their lives when grasping at those bonds could mean the difference between making it and not. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#anxiety #children #dating #faith #fear

Whenever a woman strengthens the faith of a child, she contributes to the strength of a family - now and in the future. ↗

— The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

#faith #womanhood #faith

...Both Elizabeth [Smart] and Ruby [Jessop] were fourteen when they were kidnapped, raped and "kept captive by polygamous fanatics." The main difference in the girls' respective ordeals...is that "Elizabeth was brainwashed for nine months," while Ruby had been brainwashed by polygamist fanatics "since birth." Despite the similarity of their plights, Elizabeth's abusers were jailed and charged with sexual assault, aggravated burglary, and aggravated kidnapping, while Ruby... "was returned to her abusers, no real investigation was done, no charges brought against anyone" involved. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#mormonism #polygamy #religion #religion-and-children #women-s-rights

Don't die a pauper, don't die a commoner and a weakling. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#be-different #book #books-reading #books-reading-bibliophily #bookstore

Apparently, the easiest way to overcome any awkwardness of speaking about sex is to sterilize it and outsource it to the professionals. ↗

— Matthew Lee Anderson

#sex #faith

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #egocentrism #philosophy #self-perfection #self-surrender