Despite the effects of the Fall and despite our deep sinfulness, the world continues to be God’s creation.
It has not ceased to be “altogether beautiful.”
Despite human alienation and suffering, the Divine Beauty is still present in our midst and still remains ever active, incessantly performing its work of healing and transfiguration.
Even now beauty is saving the world, and it will always continue to do so.
But it is the beauty of a God who is totally involved in the pain of the world that He has made, of a God who died on the Cross and on the third day rose victorious from the dead.
Metropolitan Kallistos