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Quotes About Beauty

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
~ Matt Haig
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.
~ John Dryden
Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.
~ Christina Rossetti
To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
~ Edouard Vuillard
Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.
~ Robert Barron
Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
~ Ernest Renan
All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
~ William Wordsworth
How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!
~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Earth's crammed with Heaven.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.
~ Martin Walser
This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.
~ Meister Eckhart
The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty.
~ Mark Driscoll
Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.
~ Mason Cooley
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.
~ Mitch Albom
The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.
~ John Steinbeck
Beauty is simply a perfect composition of a status.
~ Unknown