The nature of the beard contributes in an incredible degree to distinguish the maturity of bodies . . . to contribute to the beauty of manliness and strength. —LACTANTIUS
The beard signifes the courageous . . . the earnest, the active, the vigorous. So that when we describe such, we say, he is a bearded man. —SAINT AUGUSTINE
[God] adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him, as an attribute of manhood . . . a sign of strength. —CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
Never underestimate how dark the earth and how broken Christ’s bride. But in the life and death and resurrection and ascension and session of the world’s true King ‘more can be mended than we know’ - Francis Spufford
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. -Pablo Picasso
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