True beauty is spiritual loveliness and is inherent in all real being. To human perception beauty shines through people, through birds and animals, trees and flowers, hills and valleys. It is seen in the grandeur of lofty mountains, great lakes, and spreading trees; in a grain of sand, a blade of grass, a tiny rivulet, and a desert shrub.
In human character it is evidenced in nobility, trustworthiness, purity, and unselfishness. For this beauty the Psalmist prayed when he sang (Ps. 90:17), "Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us." Let integrity, poise, and goodness characterize our every thought and deed. Let us be Christlike, loving God and our neighbor as ourselves.
True beauty has its source in God and exerts a refining influence on human thought, elevating and happifying human lives. Sensuous, so-called beauty, material in source and influence, whether evidenced in art, music, or person, is counterfeit in character. The impure and ignoble have no part in the dignity and gentility of real beauty.
