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\u201cWhat, I ask, is more wonderful than the beauty of God? What thought is more pleasing and satisfying than God\u2019s majesty? What desire is as urgent and overpowering as the desire implanted by God in a soul that is completely purified of sin and cries out in its love: \u2018I am woundeed by love!\u2019? The radiance of the divine beauty is altogether beyond the power of words to describe.\u201d\n

\u2014 from Rules of Monks by St Basil the Great<\/em><\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat, I ask, is more wonderful than the beauty of God? What thought is more pleasing and satisfying than God\u2019s majesty? What desire is as urgent and overpowering as the desire implanted by God in a soul that is completely purified of sin and cries out in its love: \u2018I am woundeed by love!\u2019? The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBeauty and Basil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""What, I ask, is more wonderful than the beauty of God? What thought is more pleasing and satisfying than God's majesty? 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