Beauty is at the heart of all things. Beauty is at the heart of God, and the beauty that we see — and even create — is like the trailing wake from God's hand across the ocean of the universe. This is why, in attending to beauty, we become open to the mystery of God. In attending to beauty, we open ourselves to participation in God's own transformation of things to modes of beauty not yet realized, but hovering still on the edges of becoming.
— Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, Embracing a Beautiful God by Patricia Adams Farmer