"Truth and goodness need beauty. Truth claims divorced from beauty can become condescending. Goodness minus beauty can become moralistic. to embrace truth and goodness in the Christian sense, we must also embrace beauty...." - Pages 28-29
"...But when the beautiful is severed from the absolute (God), what passes for beautiful can be anything and everything - which is to say nothing. There really is a profound connection between the loss of beauty and the loss of meaning..." - Page 30
""The cross is a beautiful mystery - a mystery where an unexpected beauty is in the process of rescuing the world from its ugliness. Beauty will save the world." Page 31
From Beauty Will Save the World: Rediscovering the Beauty and Allure of Christianity, by Brian Zahnd
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