Beauty Will Save the World | Dostoevsky | Photographic Artwork Glorifying Jesus Christ, Universal Creator & King | Christian HoodieThe beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible. Simone Weil +++ Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees. + St Gregory of Nyssa +++ It is vain to affirm that which the heart does not confirm. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn +++ In Greek, the word, kalos, carries a double meaning: it can mean good, and it can mean beautiful. The same is true of the

someone says

but puts forth a strong fragrance

For everyone will be seasoned with fire

The second level of temptation of the spiritual athlete consisted of various tortures spawned from the demonized minds of the pagans under Olymbrios: she was beaten with wooden clubs and her flesh was raked with iron claws

and cannot turn to God with my whole heart

and the protector of soldiers

awaiting the sentence which shall be pronounced by God

the ministers of the Lord

When they beheld the angel seated on the stone

The Struggle for Virtue

“It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it

then shall come to pass the saying that is written: