“Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is constantly perceived. Therefore, the ardent lover of beauty, although receiving what is always visible as the image of what he desires, yet longs to be filled with the very stamp of the Archetype.” -St. Gregory of Nyssa

“But if they went astray and became vile, throwing away their birthright of beauty, then they would come under the natural law of death and live no longer in paradise, but, dying outside of it, continue in death and in corruption.” -St Athanasius

“These people could have perceived something of the one who created all things as they thought about the power and beauty of the things that were created.” -Wisdom 13:5

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing—to reach the Mountain, to the place where all the beauty came from.” -Psyche Till We Have Faces

“Love the beautiful and you will love the good, neglect the beautiful and you will not know the good.” -Unknown