Leah Compston

“I had observed that neurotypicals criticised autistic people for lacking empathy… but seldom made any effort to improve their own empathy towards autistic people.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result

“Agenda is bad when it usurps the beauty. Christian art should strive for a marriage of the two, just as Christ is described as being “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). Truth without beauty can be a weapon; beauty without truth can be spineless. The two together are like lyric and melody. This is not to say that beauty itself isn’t a kind of truth, nor that truth itself isn’t beautiful. It’ll take a better philosopher than me to parse all that out. (I commend to you authors like Steve Guthrie and Jeremy Begbie if you want to swim in those deep but lovely waters.)”
― Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

“You know, son, there are a lot of people who deny God simply because they say they can't find out where Cain got his wife, or because they say the whale couldn't have swallowed Jonah. 'Course that's not their real reason, an' they know it. I guess it's a way of thinkin'. As far as I'm concerned, I can look at a rose covered with dew or watch a young mother tendin' her baby an' know there's a God. Things like that would be proof enough, even if I didn't know more. People who want to believe in God always can find Him. An' they don't have to wait until they die to know that He's real.”
― Joe David Brown, Stars in My Crown

“In the adult world, an uneven distribution of abilities is more valuable than mediocrity at everything. It is irrelevant to me whether or not my doctor is adept at hitting a ball with a stick—or finding her way to work without looking at street signs—but I would like her to be as proficient as possible in the practice of medicine. Conversely, at school, being other than unobtrusively average in every area (with the exception of sports) is a distinct disadvantage.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result