"Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. Weâ€™re so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses."

--

Source : John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

Stasi Eldredge

#Beautiful Quotes #Two Quotes #Needs Quotes

“It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”
“A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.”
“In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.”
“The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The solution of the social problem is in liberty.”
“It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity.”

Source : Hubert Harrison, Jeffrey B. Perry (2001). “A Hubert Harrison Reader”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press
“He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.”
“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.”

You may also like:

Angela Thomas
Author
Bill Johnson
Author
Dan B. Allender
Author
Francine Rivers
Author
Henry Cloud
Clinical psychologist
John Eldredge
Author
John Townsend
Author
Shaunti Feldhahn
Author
Steve Arterburn
Author