#beau

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3) ↗

— David Bentley Hart

#christianity #eastern-orthodox #beauty

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#fatal #humor #like #may #never

I see using my other senses. I can smell the rain before it drops, but I can’t watch it fall. I can feel the sun on my face, but I can’t see it rise or set. I want to see the world like everyone else, to see the sun, the rain, the music. Oh I bet music looks beautiful. ↗

— Sydney Wells

#beauty

our fatal troika dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction and in all Russia for long past men have stretched out imploring hands and called a halt to its furious reckless course. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#beauty

He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears to wash it away. Distrust that love and joy, beauty and strength blossomed on the earth, distrust in himself, all must go, all did go, for it was Easter; the dead lived and the Spirit of Fasting would never again come into power. ↗

— Selma Lagerlöf

#trust #weeping #beauty

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#because #blind #does #exist #just

It was hard not to feel resentment that men weren't forced into these choices. Some days she felt that she would spend all her time trying to forget her life before children because she loved them too much to be reminded of the heat of Rome in the summer and a beautiful girl who turned heads as she walked down an Italian strada. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#women-s-liberation #women-s-rights #beauty

Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I'm really good looking. Then other times I think my body's all wrong. ↗

— Alex Sanchez

#body-image #beauty

There was something touching about the fact that Murray was dressed almost totally in corduroy. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#humor #beauty

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for. ↗

— Otis Criblecoblis

#blonde #drink #drove #her #i