Quotes about Beauty

Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.

It's wrong not to be in awe of what God created, but it's even more deeply wrong when you can look at created glory without remembering God.

God is not willing for this broken-down world to stay in its sorry condition. As Creator, he is able to look at it and see promise, the promise of a total restoration of its beauty. And he has asked you to move in with him to be one of his tools of restoration. While it is hard to live in a house that needs to be restored in some ways it is even harder to live there while the restoration takes place.

I am designed to appreciate beautiful things, but I must not attach my identity to how many of those things I possess, and I must not let my heart be ruled by

So your hope in life and death is never to be found in the degree of your love for God. It is only ever found in the magnitude of his love for you. This love is yours as a gift of his grace even on those days where your heart has run after other lovers. That's just how beautiful and faithful his love for you really is.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

Yes, God has filled your life with glories of many kinds. There is never a day when you aren't greeted by those glories. But it is vital to remember that the glories that surround you every day in the world that God made are not meant to be your stopping point, because you were created to live for a greater, more glorious glory—the glory of God.

Christianity gutted of Christ is devoid of both its beauty and its power.

To be a Christian is to live positively and not destructively, to make ugly things beautiful, and to make chaos meaningful.

And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,