Beauty evokes desire….it is genuinely desire, and not some ideally disinterested and dispirited state of contemplation, that beauty both calls for and answers to: though not a course, impoverished desire to consume and dispose, but a desire made full at a distance, dwelling alongside what is loved and possessed in the intimacy of dispossession…
…the love God requires of creatures – is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.
– The Beauty of the Infinite, p. 19,20 (bold is mine)
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