01/48. Incapable of reaching that which is beyond them, they try to bring everything down to their level. Unable to tolerate beauty , they strive to soil everything around them. Powerless to grasp the truth, they attempt to distort everything they cannot see and hear well.

36/06. Let us note how much the people of this nation have shown themselves to be blind and deaf with regard to the beauty and the truth of the revealed Book. Let us note how much they have remained stupid and dumb before the obviousness of the manifested light.

03/08. How shall we grasp the mystery of hidden things if we do not understand the obviousness of those that blind us? The external star combines with the internal sun to engender the unique brightness. «Oh secret beauty !»

10/38'. The apparent defect of beings and things deceives many intelligent men, and the secret beauty of the world is manifested only to sages and saints.

11/52. The light of our hearts screams at God through the darkness of the body that imprisons it, and the Father delivers she who has gone astray, and the Son appears in the splendour of the union. There is a great beauty and a great virtue in the Lord's work; that is why he keeps working on it and does not reject it.

36/12. Oh, faint-hearted ones from all nations, learn from your heart to know the beauty and the truth of God where it appears, and not just where they tell you it is.

18/11. The poets and artists sing of lost beauty , but very few know that they are weeping for their repudiated Lord. «Evil IS NOT, but it remains as the casing of that which IS.»

22/31. The artist, the believer, the saint, the sage is he who raises himself up to the illuminating beauty of the creation released from its gangue of death.

26/27'. No image could give us an idea of the living beauty of the unique heavenly Splendour.

26/30'. Those who have become insensitive to the beauty of God's creation can no longer be sensitive to the direct beauty of God.

29/49'. All that is beautiful and good here below is nothing but the reflection of the beauty and succulence of the pure substance of life, and all that is ugly and bad is nothing more than an image of the ugliness and the poison of the dark filth of death.

35/73. Good taste and beauty are no more expensive than vulgarity and ugliness. As for the truth of God, it is free for everyone. If the beauty of the world eludes us, how shall the beauty of him who made it ever become perceptible to us?

31/11. Let us push away ugly and complicated things and let us devote all our leisure to the quest for the unique beauty .

33/27'. The water of life shall flow from its secret centre and the beauty of the lordly creation shall be reflected in rediscovered immortality.