“Just because the Fall ripped [goodness and beauty] apart and beauty can be misused doesn’t mean they can’t go together. It’s not true that goodness comes only in plain and ugly packages, or that beauty has to hide a rotten core.” GoodnessInner BeautyTrue Beauty Book:Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy Source: Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy
“In the end, beauty isn’t measured by physical features but by our likeness to the One in whose image we’re created. So do we measure ourselves against others, then manipulate our beauty to form our own image? Or do we see ourselves as God sees us and allow him to mold us into his likeness? God wants to make us ‘good’ in the Genesis 1 sense of the word. Not a goody-two-shoes, afraid-to-do-anything-wrong sort of good. A beautiful, magnificent good that’s terrible in its splendor.” True BeautyIn God S ImageIdeal Beauty Book:Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy Source: Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy