"He who in chaste love looks on beauty, thinks not that the flesh is beautiful, but the spirit, admiring, as I judge, the body as an image, by whose beauty he transports himself to the Artist, and to the true beauty."
"And the happiness of marriage ought never to be estimated either by wealth or beauty, but by virtue."
-- Clement of Alexandria
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. This is what I've tried so often to express about my admiration for a woman's beauty. It's not until you see her inner beauty that you begin to truly appreciate her outer beauty. It's the beauty of her spirit that makes her external person beautiful. And it's His beauty shining through her that makes her spirit beautiful. She's like a clear bottle filled with colored liquid, set in the windowsill for the sun to shine through. The bottle is pretty, the color makes it prettier, but it's the sunlight that really brings it all to life and makes it shine.
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