Quotes about Beauty

Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

Jesus is saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.

The redwoods are like organ pipes, playing silent chords.

Some aching beauty comes with huge loss, although maybe not right away, when it would be helpful. Life is a very powerful force, despite the constant discouragement. So if you are a person with connections to life, a few tendrils eventually break through the sidewalk of loss, and you notice them, maybe space out studying them for a few moments, or maybe they tickle you into movement and response, if only because you have to scratch your nose.

It was about tragedy transformed over the years into joy. It was about the beauty of sheer effort. I

Love and goodness and the world's beauty and humanity are the reasons we have hope.

God's joy moves from unmarked box to unmarked box, from cell to cell. As rainwater, down into flowerbed. As roses, up from ground. Now it looks like a plate of rice and fish, now a cliff covered with vines, now a horse being saddled. It hides within these, till one day it cracks them open.

Hello, Dearest. I'm so glad it's you!" I've come to believe that this is how God feels when I pray, even at my least attractive.

It stops and gasps at beauty and is bathed in it. And sometimes it begins to weep.

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.