Beauty Will Save the World

These three are inseparable: truth, goodness, and beauty. For God is Truth (John 14:6), God is Good (Psalm 99:5), and God is Beauty (Psalm 89:17) – and God is One. When the human nous contemplates the most-perfect beauty it also beholds the greatest good and the highest truth. The soul thus becomes capable of fitting into itself all the boundlessness of divinity. For this reason, the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) in his novel, The Idiot, writes: “Beauty will save the world.”

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Beauty of Orthodox Women and Children

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Beauty of Women Praying in Church

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