Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.
... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.
