"Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground."
― Pope Paul VI
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From Pope Paul VI
- "Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest."
- "All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."
- "Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters."
More In Beauty
- "Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."― Gerard Manley Hopkins
- "Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?"― Anna Katharine Green
- "Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."― George Bancroft