#beauty

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God. ↗

— John Piper

#worship #beauty

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot ↗

— Agatha Christie

#humor #the-patriotic-murders #beauty

There is a role and function for beauty in our time. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#function #our #our time #role #time

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#because #between #intellect #intellectual #overlap

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#about #beautiful #image #place #really

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ↗

— Jane Austen

#almost #beauty #been #cradle #delight

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#best #best part #express #part #picture

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#beauty #difficulty #gravest #important #making

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#directly #into #makes #more #nothing

Beauty awakens the soul to act. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#act #awakens #soul