Seeking God's Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
GOODNESS, noun The state of being good; the physical qualities which constitute value, excellence, or perfection; as the goodness of timber; the goodness of soil.
Greek (Agathas) Faith or desires for holiness of a thing or a person.
1. The moral qualities that constitute Christian excellence, moral virtue, and religion.
According to Galatians 5:22, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, and faith.
2. Kindness; benevolence; benignity of heart; but more generally, acts of kindness; charity; humanity exercised.
I shall remember his goodness to me with gratitude.
3. Kindness; benevolence of nature; mercy.
The Lord God--abundant in goodness and truth. Exodus 34:6.
4. Kindness; favor shown; acts of benevolence, compassion, or mercy.
Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah had done to Israel. Exodus 18:9.
"God saw every thing that he had made, it was very good" Genesis 1:31
“God is not a symbol of Goodness:
Goodness is a symbol of God.”
-C.K. Chesterton
TRUTH, noun
1. Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be. The truth of history constitutes its whole value. We rely on the truth of the scriptural prophecies.
My mouth shall speak truth Proverbs 8:7.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth John 17:17.
2. True state of facts or things. The duty of a court of justice is to discover the truth. Witnesses are sworn to declare the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
3. Conformity of words to thoughts, which is called moral truth Shall truth fail to keep her word?
4. Veracity; purity from falsehood; practice of speaking truth; habitual disposition to speak truth; as when we say, a man is a man of truth
5. Correct opinion.
6. Fidelity; constancy. The thoughts of past pleasure and truth
7. Honesty; virtue. It must appear That malice bears down truth
8. Exactness; conformity to rule. Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the iron work. [Not in use.]
9. Real fact of just principle; real state of things. There are innumerable truths with which we are not acquainted.
10. Sincerity.
God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth John 4:23.
11. The truth of God, is his veracity and faithfulness. Psalms 71:22. Or his revealed will. -> I have walked in thy truth Psalms 26:3.
12. Jesus Christ is called the truth John 14.
13. It is sometimes used by way of concession. She said, truth Lord, yet the dogs eat of the crumbs-- Matthew 15:27.
That is, it is a truth; what you have said, I admit to be true.
In truth, in reality, in fact. Of a truth in reality, certainly.
To do truth is to practice what God commands. John 3.
Greek Aletheia
Nonconcealment, truth in the moral sphere.
Truth is an expression of knowledge and reason, which is found in God. Truth without beauty is propaganda.
"I am the way, and the truth, and the life" John 14:6
BEAU'TY, noun bu'ty.
1. An assemblage of graces, or an assemblage of properties in the form of the person or any other object which pleases the eye. In the person, due proportion or symmetry of parts constitutes the most essential property to which we annex the term beauty In the face, the regularity and symmetry of the features, the color of the skin, and the expression of the eye, are among the principal properties which constitute beauty But as it is hardly possible to define all the properties which constitute beauty we may observe in general, that beauty consists in whatever pleases the eye of the beholder, whether in the human body, in a tree, in a landscape, or in any other object.
Beauty is intrinsic, and perceived by the eye at first view, or relative, to perceive which the aid of the understanding and reflection is requisite. Thus, the beauty of a machine is not perceived till we understand its uses and adaptation to its purpose. This is called the beauty of utility. By any easy transition, the word beauty is used to express what is pleasing to the other senses or to the understanding. Thus, we say, the beauty of a thought, of a remark, of sound, etc.
So beauty, armed with virtue bows the soul with a commanding but sweet control.
2. A particular grace, feature, or ornament; any particular thing that is beautiful and pleasing, such as the beauties of nature.
3. A particular excellence, or a part which surpasses in excellence that with which it is united, as the beauties of an author.
4. A beautiful person, In scripture, the chief dignity or ornament. 2 Samuel 1:19.
5. In the arts, symmetry of parts; harmony; justness of composition.
6. Joy and gladness. Isaiah 61:3. Order, prosperity, peace, holiness, Ezekiel 26:1.
Greek Kalos Attractive and imagination. Inspiring others to embrace what is lovely.
Beauty is defined by truth and goodness.
Saint Thomas Aquinas defined beauty as “id quod visum placet” —that which being seen, pleases