Quotes about Beauty
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.
— NT Wright
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
— Frederick Douglass
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
— Robert Barron
Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
— St. Augustine
Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.
— Cicero
Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
— John Bunyan
Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .
— St. Augustine
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
— St. Augustine
Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
— Vincent Van Gogh
But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
— Margaret Fuller