#son

FRIENDS HELP YOU BE HAPPY ENEMIES LET YOU DOWN FAMILY HELPS YOU LEARN THE WORLD MAKES YOU SURVIVE ↗

— Varun Ravikumar

#family

Percy says be talked to a Nereid in Charleston Harbor!” “Good for him!” Leo yelled back. “The Nereid said we should seek help from Chiron’s brothers.” “What does that mean? The Party Ponies?” Leo had never met Chiron’s crazy centaur relatives, but he’d heard rumors of Nerf sword-fights, root beer-chugging contests, and Super Soakers filled with pressurized whipped cream. “Not sure,” Annabeth said. “But I’ve got coordinates. Can you input latitude and longitude in this thing?” “I can input star charts and order you a smoothie, if you want. Of course I can do latitude and longitude! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#chiron #family #heroes-of-olympus #humor #leo-valdez

We must be careful more than ever what we let our hearts believe in. ↗

— Solange nicole

#deception #faith #life-lessons #solange #faith

But everything I have to give, I'll give to you ↗

— Ray Lamontagne

#hope #love #relationships #song-lyrics #faith

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#faith

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#bliss #christ #eternity #faith #ignorance

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#cease #environment #exercise #faith #his

Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#faith #reason #faith

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully ↗

— Mason Cooley

#faith

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work. ↗

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

#fiction #identity #personal-growth #women-s-fiction #faith