Do not accept anything as truth if it lacks love
and do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
Blessed Pope John Paul II
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Who has not heard Dostoevsky's oft-quoted remark, "Beauty will save us?" Usually people forget to mention, however, that by redeeming beauty Dostoevsky means Christ. He it is whom we must learn to see. If we cease to know him only through words but are struck by the arrow of his paradoxical beauty, then we will truly come to know him and will no longer merely know about him at second-hand. Then we will have encountered the beauty of truth, of redeeming truth. Nothing can bring us into contact with the beauty of Christ himself more than the world of beauty created by faith and the light that shines upon the faces of the saints, through which his own light becomes visible.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
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