Like my Dad, I find
beauty in things that are practical and useful in everyday life.
«I always find
beauty in things that are odd and imperfect they are much more interesting» Marc Jacobs
People who can see
beauty in all things are such inspiration.
It is easy to misunderstand or even envy the style of someone who is in a different place in life, has different goals or insights, or appreciates
beauty in things others do not.
it reminds me that as a child I always had my eyes to the ground, on broken walkways, crumbling walls, seeking
beauty in these things.
He looks at the old wall paper, the fraying furniture, the threadbare curtains and sees
beauty in these things that she loves.
LOL Children have he ability to see
beauty in things we've long since lost interest in as adults.
It's less a story than an invitation to see
the beauty in all things, but if you go in expecting anything remotely conventional, you will either be confused or annoyed.
God designed me with the ability to appreciate
the beauty in all things.
I always try to keep harmony and balance in my life, look for
beauty in all things.
I appreciate quality and
beauty in things, honesty and reliability in humans.
«Sometimes it just takes a new perspective to see that hidden
beauty in things.
Observing the beauties in nature and recreating those images as your own interpretation can help slow you down and appreciate
the beauty in things you would of missed.
We begin to find
beauty in things once unseen.
As I get older I realize there's
beauty in every thing and every place.
I have become enlightened and see
beauty in thing other people don't see.
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I guess that's one of the
things about the
beauty and subjective nature of any kind of «art» - It will speak to some and not to others, with varying responses and reactions
in between.
She only wanted to remember the good
things in her life, and all the
beauty she had seen.
But their responses included
things like,
in control, puppet master,
beauty, sadistic, no idea etc..
That there is
beauty in nature and
things happening
in our hearts or souls, or call it what you want, we all know.
I can feel the tension between the big
things that grieve me to my over-sensitive core — like the execution of Troy Davis that took place last night — and the little
things that tick me off — like folding laundry again, the big
things that overwhelm me with gratitude —
beauty, truth, love, friendship, kinship — and the little
things that make me want to weep with joy — the gap between Joseph's teeth, Evelynn's toothless smiles, Anne perched
in a chair for an hour with a book.
Here is a consistency to which I bear witness: the material world matters — the
things we make, the breath we draw, the
beauty we create, the love we make, the food we eat: kingdom come and so spot the glimpses
in seeds and trees,
in yeast and pearls,
in sandals and smiles,
in fishing and gardening,
in children and women,
in the poor and cast - aside,
in birth and death.
Even then, since Jesus was instrumental
in making all
things (Col 1), even if I am talking about the
beauty of a tree or a sunset, this is worshipful of Jesus.
A thought, a harmony, the achievement of a perfection
in material
things, some special nuance
in human love, the exquisite complexity of a smile or a glance, every new embodiment of
beauty appearing
in me or around me on the human face of the earth: I cherish them all like children whose flesh I can not believe destined to complete extinction.
Cf. Lewis's remarks
in «The Weight of Glory»: «The books or the music
in which we thought the
beauty was located will betray us if we trust
in them; it was not
in them, it only came through them and what came through them was longing, these
things - the
beauty, the memory of our own past - are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken far the
thing itself, they turn into dumb idols.
One
thing have I asked of Yahweh, that will I seek after: That I may dwell
in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, To behold the
beauty of Yahweh, And to inquire
in his temple.
I wouldn't be so bold as to name the purpose of art, but I think one
thing that unifies its many forms is the desire to distill the chaos of existence,
in all its wonder and tragedy, into a single, unified image of
beauty.
Values such as tradition, reality, obligation,
beauty; nature, transcendence, nature, mystery, hope — the
things whose power makes a society work — are not operational
in typical postmodern institutions, the workplace, the government, the media, the entertainment industry.
This huge, blue planet is
in existance just so we can be born, live, make a living, have a baby, then die... no connection, no spirit, no soul, no more appreciating the
beauty around us, no more being astounded at the improbabilities, no more being amazed at the wonders of life... because none of that has any meaning any more, it's just a bunch of junk that happened accidently... who cares, we're just all going to fade away into nothingness... become one with the dirt, because we are actually no better than the dirt... I don't know about you, but I'm depressed now... but then that's what's great about our country, you can choose to believe or... not...
in this... country... that has... no particular meaning...
in the grand scheme of thngs... oh, yeah, that's right there is no «grand scheme of
things»... so never mind.
And the astonishing
thing is that at such times and
in such places — foul as they may be with the stinking ischiorectal abscesses of our comings and goings — just there, the
thing,
in all its greatest
beauty, may for a moment be freed to fly for a moment guiltily about the room.
In the depths of things beauty is cherished, and in the course of events it is efficaciou
In the depths of
things beauty is cherished, and
in the course of events it is efficaciou
in the course of events it is efficacious.
«Walk with faith, rejoicing
in the
beauties of nature,
in the goodness of those you love,
in the testimony which you carry
in your heart concerning
things divine».
From Dianna: You seem to have a pretty unusual faith journey, but one
thing I notice throughout each of the four major steps (Catholic - Hindu - Anglican - Orthodox) is the inherent
beauty in each of those worship styles - Catholicism has a very beautiful set routine of liturgy, the Hindu call to prayer is (to me) one of the most beautiful sounds
in the world, and Anglican services tend to be quite beautiful as well.
This is because her life radiates
beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those
in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing
things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.
Mark Twain candidly observed
in Answers to Correspondents that «a soiled baby, with a neglected nose, can not be conscientiously regarded as a
thing of
beauty.»
The wrinkly
thing in the photo next to him resembles
beauty?
Embracing the unknown reveals deep, profound
beauty in even the smallest everyday
things.
I don't mind reason # 1, but it's reason # 2 that I continuously ask myself, why bother preaching Jesus to them, why do I even bother showering the love of Jesus to those that continuously spits out rubbish and vile to the Man who never fails to soothe my pain and wipe my tears dry every night — who has NO IDEA of the
beauty and heavenly love of God, NO IDEA of the anger and pain the Almighty went through
in the Old Testament, NO IDEA of His heart and the love that He is capable of, NO IDEA of the meaning of the Cross and the
things that were nailed to it, NO IDEA of what they're saying at all.
I ultimately still find enough of God
in things like music and
beauty and relationships to compel me to maintain belief, but it is not the same kind of belief that I had before Jason's deconversion.
It was a
thing of
beauty in his terribleness.
He points us to the story of the Emmaus Road as epitomising the way the Christian should read Scripture «Only by walking with Christ, by re-interpreting all
things in his light, with him, crucified and risen, do we enter into the riches and
beauty of sacredScripture» (p. 82).
The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many - coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity,... That Light whose smile kindles the Universe, That
Beauty in which all
things work and move.
This was not a new idea
in Israel; but Jesus saw so clearly its radical implications, gave himself to it so utterly, embodied it so movingly
in his life and expressed it with such power and
beauty in his words, that a new
thing had happened
in Israel.
The
thing of greatest
beauty is the story it tells of a vibrant religious community arising from the ashes of so much that went wrong with monastic life
in recent decades.
As he writes
in De virginitate, «The man who has purified the eye of his soul is able to look at such
things and forget the matter
in which the
beauty is encased.»