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"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."
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"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
"She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there."
"It's her black wings that make her beautiful."
"How beautiful it is to be stress free and bloom slowly like a flower."
"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."
"How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!"
"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."
"The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside."
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"If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other."
"The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes."
"If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel."
"The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite."
"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."
"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."
"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation."
"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."
"The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being."
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