Frederica MathewesGreenDusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.
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Albert Einstein once said, “Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.” It is true that coal is not beautiful by itself, but when the fire heats the coal up to the point where it can be used as a power source then it becomes one of the most beautiful things to be found in nature.
Source: At The Corner Of East And Now: A Modern Life In Ancient Christian Orthodoxy
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