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2 "In my experience, many Christians in the West tend to pursue truth and goodness with the strongest intentionality, while beauty remains a distant third. Yet when we neglect beauty, we neglect on of the primary qualities of God. Why do we do that?"

1 "Truth and goodness can be relegated to the empirical and measurable (and the "grim and meaningless"), while the "many-islanded sea" of beauty can seem to live in another realm altogether. It's as though goodness and truth are meant to be taken seriously, but beauty is merely a plaything, a hobby, even an obstacle to efficient, important work Beauty cares very little whether the trains run on time."