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As the French playwright Jean Anouilh said, 'Beauty is one of the few things in the world that do not lead to doubt about God.' The Church intuits that immediately. When we’re in the presence of something beautiful — an act of forgiveness, a newborn baby, a sunset — beauty wounds us. It has a visceral effect on us that is delightful, that increases our humanity. Beauty also reveals to us that there is something more to the world and something more to beauty than the beautiful thing itself. It leads to contemplation. That contemplation consists of wondering at where the beauty came from.
-- Father Peter Cameron
Of course, beauty also carries with it that exquisite tinge of pain that comes with an appreciation for its transience, its ephemeral nature, which is rather like life itself.
-- Father Peter Cameron
Of course, beauty also carries with it that exquisite tinge of pain that comes with an appreciation for its transience, its ephemeral nature, which is rather like life itself.
