Quotes about Beauty

People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts.

Where did our sense of beauty and pleasure come from? That seems to me a huge question—the philosophical equivalent, for atheists, to the problem of pain for Christians. The Teacher's answer is clear: A good and loving God naturally would want his creatures to experience delight, joy, and personal fulfillment. G. K. Chesterton credits pleasure, or eternity in his heart, as the signpost that eventually directed him to God:

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is required. The stars neither require it nor demand it. ANNIE DILLARD

The quintessential good and beauty in life is what each has to offer to others valuing the gesture ourselves into confluence with the Word of God.

And that is where you want to be. Because in His arms, you'll know the beauty of His peace—"the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension" and which guards our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:7).

fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country as he hurries through it on the interstate. It is only when we sit still and gaze that the landscape fills our souls.

We live in a world in which people can do unbelievably beautiful or unbelievably horrible things to other people. And if those horrible acts argue against the existence of God, then the beautify acts must argue for God's existence.

The process we embarked on through the TRC was, as all real growth proves to be, astoundingly painful and profoundly beautiful.

I think it's healthy to say, 'I'm 58 and, do you know what, this is what a 58-year-old woman looks like.'

Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.