All Things Considered

Ordinary Acts of Bravery: But what about the ladies??

There are so many posts going around comparing Percy, Nico, and Jason, trying to decide who’s the strongest of the Big Three kids (I personally don’t think of any one of them being the strongest, but each having different strengths) and yet no one ever mentions Hazel and Thalia. They’re Big…

Sorry, but Hazel is not a Big Three child, not technically. First, the Romans didn’t have the concept of Big Three gods like the Greeks, and second, Pluto wasn’t a very important god for them. There’s no way Hazel could be more powerful than Jason, Percy or Nico. Just no.

Now, Thalia is a different story. Yes, she’s extremely powerful and could kick everyone’s butts.

"So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated."

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G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography, 1936

One of my most favorite quotes.

(via wearingsonglasses)

"The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate. This gives to the typically Christian pleasure in this earth a strange touch of lightness that is almost frivolity. … To Saint Francis, Nature is a sister, and even a younger sister: a little, dancing sister, to be laughed at as well as loved."

— G. K. Chesterton (via the-last-crusade)

Seriously though, WHY isn’t Nico di Angelo one of the seven demigods of the prophecy in Heroes of Olympus??

I mean, no offense, but I’d much rather read from the POV of mysterious Nico than from perfect Jason, sweet Piper or good old boring Frank. Yep, I said it, I think Frank is boring. I had to skip his chapters while reading the Son of Neptune, because I found them utterly uninteresting.

Nico’s a total badass and according to Hazel, he’s more powerful than Jason. He should’ve been one of the seven.

(Source: standtrueprolife)

Watching a Thomas More video on youtube and reading the comments

hoflords:

Some people have been reading way too much Hilary Mantel for fuck’s sake.

Yes, that pretty much sucks. People should really learn the difference between a novel and real history book.

"Chesterton is often associated with his close friend, the poet and essayist Hilaire Belloc. George Bernard Shaw coined the name Chesterbelloc for their partnership, and this stuck."

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Wikipedia

THEY HAD A SHIP NAME IN THE MID-1900s

Chesterbelloc is my BROTP

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They say good people are boring, but these guys would disagree

The young girl who discovered the Little Way to God:

St. Therese of Lisieux

The bad boy turned good:

St. Augustine of Hippo

The young woman who tried to pacify Europe, preaching and writing letters to the Pope:

St. Catherine of Siena

The politician who refused to betray his principles till the end:

St. Thomas More

The nun who left her congregation to help the poorest of the poor:

Mother Theresa

The rich bachelor who renounced his fortune to live like Christ:

St. Francis of Assisi

The reformer of an ancient religious order:

St. Teresa of Avila

The fierce confessor:

St. Pio of Pietrelcina

The princess who was kicked out of the palace after her husband died:

St. Elizabeth of Hungary

The smart but quiet friar who was bullied by his own family:

St. Thomas Aquinas

"Abortion ignores the cause and treats the symptom: instead of suggesting a way out of the isolation mothers face, it offers a way out of motherhood."

— Nancy Randolph Pearcy (via abolishabortion)