Quotes about Beauty

If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, Nature would lose her springtide beauty, and the fields would no longer be enameled with lovely hues. It is the same in the world of souls, Our Lord's living garden

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent or the daisy of its simple charm.

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness

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

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!

Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.