49 Quotes About Beauty

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords.

The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

We will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

Beauty without virtue is like a flower without fragrance.

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right - something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise. It will be too late then to choose your side.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Youth, beauty, wit may recommend you to men, but only faith in Jesus Christ can recommend you to God.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Look at that beautiful butterfly, and learn from it to trust in God. One might wonder where it could live in tempestuous nights, in the whirlwind, or in the stormy day; but I have noticed it is safe and dry under the broad leaf while rivers have been flooded, and the mountain oaks torn up from their roots.

If you see any beauty in Christ, and say, "I desire to have that," God will work it in you.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

To discover a flaw in our makeup is a chance to get rid of it, and add a new line of beauty to our life.

Beauty is like an almanac: if it lasts a year it is well.

What is the essential difference between the Christian and the not-a-Christian, between the spiritual beauty and the moral beauty? It is the distinction between the Organic and the Inorganic. Moral beauty is the product of the natural man, spiritual beauty of the spiritual man.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

My Father, supremely good, beauty of all things beautiful.

All the glory and beauty of Christ are manifested within, and there He delights to dwell; His visits there are frequent, His condescension amazing, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and the peace that He brings passeth all understanding.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most. The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to find the place where all the beauty came from.

Do not grudge the Hand that is molding the still too shapeless image within you. It is growing more beautiful, though you see it not, and every touch of temptation may add to its perfection.

Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into her better body?

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

Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and turn even the rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

Nothing does so establish the mind amidst the rollings and turbulences of present things, as to look above them and beyond them - above them, to the steady and good hand by which they are ruled, and beyond them, to the sweet and beautiful end to which, by that hand, they will be brought.

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven and the more glorious that glory.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

Laughing, if loud, ends in a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty on the face.

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

We are to be re-made. All the rabbit in us is to disappear-and then, surprisingly, we shall find underneath it all a thing we have never yet imagined: a real Man, an ageless god, a son of God, strong, radiant, wise, beautiful, and drenched in joy.

God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.

God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.

Sensual pleasures are like soap-bubbles, sparkling, evanescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.