Beauty Quote by Clement of Alexandria Download Open image “What does God think of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?” — Clement of Alexandria ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beauty Doe Falsehood God Modesty Thinking
If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“Arthur Lohsen of the Catholic News Agency explains, “Beauty is the single aspect of God which can be expressed physically within the earthly realm. Beauty is not merely Man’s arrogance or a waste of resources which could be directed to the poor. Beautiful settings, artwork, music, and liturgy are appropriate and necessary aspects of God’s everlasting mystical presence before Mankind.” — Sterling Jaquith Copy Share
“if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great nonsense of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The sense of beauty puts a brake upon destruction, by representing its object as irreplaceable. When the world looks back at me with my eyes, as it does in aesthetic experience, it is also addressing me in another way. Something is being revealed to me, and I am being made to stand still and absorb it. It is of course… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
“Friend, that was not well spoken; you seem like one who is reckless. So it is that the gods do not bestow graces in… — Homer Copy Share Image
If we fully trust that God is as beautiful as he reveals himself to be on the cross, we must regard the ugly surface appearance of these portraits to reflect the sinful way his people imagined God, not the way God actually is. But when we by faith look through the ugly surface of these portraits, we can see God… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share
“I think it is our nature to believe evil always has an ugly face,” he said, ignoring my question. “Beauty is supposed to be… — Danielle L. Jensen Copy Share Image
It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“Now Aristotle says that the judgment which follows knowledge is in truth faith. Accordingly, faith is something superior to knowledge, and is its criterion.… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor… He is God and Creator. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
To fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity, and still be… — Tool Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
“We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak, they have nothing of substance to… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it. — Tumblr Copy Share Image
