Quotes about Beauty

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

The familiar is by far the most beautiful.

Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Three reasons God commands us to pray correlate to our three deepest needs, the fundamental needs of the three powers of our soul: prayer gives truth to our mind, goodness to our will, and beauty to our heart . 'The true, the good, and the beautiful' are the three things we need and love the most, because they are the three attributes of God.

God is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of God. Music is a language more profound than words. How often have you heard a great piece of music and felt that? Great music does not just make you feel good; great music suggests some profound truth or mysterious meaning that is objectively true but not translatable into words.

Earthly life is full of soporifics, anaesthetics, pain-dullers. In fact, compared with Purgatory our whole life on earth will appear to have been life only half awake. In Purgatory we will be fully awake, fully sensitive, and fully cognizant of the evil of all of our sins. Our clear knowledge of God's brightness and beauty will make our clear knowledge of our own darkness and ugliness more painful than any similar light that shows up our most terrible defects here on earth.

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