Quotes about Beauty
We are God's art. We are God's poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.
- Gregory Dickow
Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.
- Gregory of Nyssa
Just as many questions might be started for debate among people sitting up at night as to the kind of thing that sunshine is, and then the simple appearing of it in all its beauty would render any verbal description superfluous, so every calculation that tries to arrive conjecturally at the future state will be reduced to nothingness by the object of our hopes, when it comes upon us.
- Gregory of Nyssa
Time had not altered the beauty of his countenance, nor darkened the brightness of his eyes. He continued on the same, preserved in an incorruptible beauty in the corruptibleness of nature.
- Gregory of Nyssa
Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
For Mrs. Bradley, the voice she heard was the voice of the resurrected Jesus. It spoke of hope that, although white racists could take her son's life, they could not deprive his life and death of an ultimate meaning. As in the resurrection of the Crucified One, God could transmute defeat into triumph, ugliness into beauty, despair into hope, the cross into the resurrection.
- James H. Cone
My message to blacks was: "It is time to stop hating who you are. God created you black—love yourself, love your hands and face, big nose and lips, for that is the only way you can love God. Blackness is God's gift to humanity.
- James H. Cone
The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
- John Piper
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
- Michelangelo
Women give life! That on its own is inspiring.Besides, women are prettier than men.
- Jujubee
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
- Oscar Wilde