Following is a quote from the magazine, First Things, the April 2011 issue. It is written by Ross McCullough and I hope that we have an opportunity in our Christian spirituality group to discuss the full opinion piece. It is entitled The Beauty of the Ethical.
"[The moral act] has what the Greeks called karios, the right moment the perfect time - and not just the when, but what is done, and why, and where and how it is performed. It is just right.
In that sense moral behavior is a graceful thing, and the saint behaves in something like the way that Astaire danced or sugar Ray boxed or... Capablanca played chess.... There is a beauty to the moral gesture, the moral life, the moral soul; there is a quiet harmony to the parts of the act and to the priorities of the life and to the passions of the mind; and there is from all this a beauty that spreads slowly and subtly but unstoppably out across the sleeping world like the first signs of the sun."
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