You've seen the world —

The beauty and the wonder and the power,

The shapes of things, their colors, lights and shades,

Changes, surprises – and God made it all.

^{Robert Browning}

Beauty is, after all, as much of divinity as can be expressed through any one form. Remember that form and life are one. There is naught but life in manifestation.

^{Alice Bailey}

Ask the loveliness of the earth, the loveliness of the sea, the loveliness of the wide airy spaces, the loveliness of the sky, the order of the stars, the sun making the day light with its rays; ask the moon tempering the darkness of the night that follows, the living things which move in the waters, which tarry on land, which fly in the air; ask the souls that are hidden, the bodies that are perceptible; the visible things which must be governed, the invisible things which govern – ask all these things, and they will all answer thee. See, we are lovely. Their loveliness is their confession. And these lovely but immutable things, who has made them, save Beauty immutable.

^{Saint Augustine}

In beauty surpassing

the Universe smiled,

On the morn of its birth,

like an innocent child,

Or like the rich bloom

of some delicate flower;

And the Father rejoiced

In the work of His power.

^{John Cardinal Newman}

Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate

With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon

Of human thought or form.

^{Percy Bysshe Shelley}

Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

^{Albert Einstein}

There can be no doubt but that everything in the world, by the beauty of its order, and the evidence of a determinate and beneficial purpose which pervades it, testifies that some supreme efficient Power must have pre-existed, by which the whole was ordained for a specific end.

^{John Milton}

God is beautiful, and He loves beauty.

^Muhammad

Beauty is the gift of God.

^Aristotle

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquillity.

^Goethe

...The ideals which have guided my way, and time after time have given me the energy to face life, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

^{Albert Einstein}

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

^{Ralph Waldo Emerson}

The Infinite has written its name on the heavens in shining stars, and on the earth in tender flowers.

^{Jean Paul Richter}

Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.

^Psalms