John Henry Newman Quotes

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

The good is the beautiful.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.

A moment's truth can and shall make the world beautiful. A moment's peace can and shall save the world. A moment's love can and shall make the world perfect.

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.

It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

Is your life beautiful? Do you live in surroundings that you have made beautiful through your own unique, creative ideas? To expect and lovingly require beauty to be apparent in all areas of your life is to be deeply loving to yourself, your soul, your world, and shows reverence to God and all of life. There is always something beautiful to be found, right where you are, if you will look for it. Concentrate your thoughts on the good, the beautiful, and the true things in life.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past -- whether he admits it or not -- can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.

Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

How near to good is what is fair!

An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.

How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)