religious aesthetics Quotes

I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

One of the threats to Christianity in the 21st century is this idea that religion is best understood as a kind of aesthetic experience, and that you can get all your morality from that.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.

I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.

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

Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?