Beauty is inextricably intertwined with eros, and … the best expression of both (beauty and eros) is seen in the face of the earthly beloved — not an idealized and unattainable one… . Redeemed marriage … is the best image of human beauty we have. The face of an earthly beloved transfigured by lifelong committed fidelity is likely someday to be full of wrinkles and loss of muscle tone. But trust me, as a seasoned artist and one who has been married for over thirty years to the same woman, that aging face will be a beautiful face… . Only eyes trained by gazing continually toward the cross — only eyes cleansed by that second innocence, childlike habitual charity — can see true beauty, true goodness.

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— Herman, Wounded Beauty