Abigail Barrus

“To read Job correctly, I believe, we must read ourselves into the role of the Comforters by asking by plain evidence we may be aggressively dismissing --- and what human relationships we might be actively destroying --- in order to remain possessed of our comfortable ideological narratives.”
― Michael Austin

“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”
― Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy

“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is to running.”
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God