Tag: beauty

Beauty will save the world

Beauty will save the world

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s enigmatic declaration in The Idiot that “Beauty will save the world” is the title of a book by Pastor Brian Zahnd in which he asks: “Where is the beauty that we know we cannot really live without?”  Western society has technology, convenience, security, and a measure of prosperity; the Christian Church claims to know truth and goodness. …

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Joy

Joy

Happiness depends on what happens to us; joy depends on what we choose to do. Of course the two are not unrelated, but the first has more to do with things that are largely beyond our control; the second is more in our hands. We can actively enjoy or rejoice, but we can’t enhappy or…

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