Holiness is beauty. There is no beauty like that of a pure character. The grandest sight on this earth is not the march of the all-conquering storm whose cloudy battalions go rushing through the sounding heavens; the most beautiful thing on earth is not the garden which opens, and sends forth from its censers fragrance; it is not the stateliness of the tree which you sit under through the long summer’s day; those are not the most beautiful things on earth that art carves out of stone; the beauty of the soul lies in its secret chambers; and the rich, deep, just, holy and loving natures—these are the beautiful thing’s of this world. There is nothing so beautiful as Christ in man.— BEECHER.
