Beauty Will Save the World | Dostoevsky | Photographic Artwork Glorifying Jesus Christ, Universal Creator & King | Christian Tank Top

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

- Simone Weil

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Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

+ St Gregory of Nyssa

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It is vain to affirm that which the heart does not confirm. 

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

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In Greek, the word, kalos, carries a double meaning: it can mean “good,” and it can mean “beautiful.” The same is true of the Hebrew word tov. It is these words that we find in Genesis when God says that creation is “good.” I believe that the double sense of these words are both true. To know the goodness of creation is also to know its beauty (nor can they truly be separated). 

- Fr Stephen Freeman, "Why Should Beauty Matter?"

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Original photography by Michael Theophan Lujan