Much as God writes His law of right vs. wrong on our hearts, He also gives every human being an innate sense of beauty. Nature is not just functional, it is unquestionably beautiful. God turned His Creation into a work of art. Every sunrise and every sunset is amongst the most beautiful of paintings. You do not have to explain to a small child that nature is beautiful, they inherently know it.

Just as the innate sense of morality God places within us allows us to recognize right from wrong, the innate sense of beauty He places within us allows us to recognize beautiful from ugly. And just as our innate sense of right vs. wrong drives us to create governments and written laws, the innate sense of beauty we all experience inspires us to create works of art.

Our innate sense of right vs. wrong and our innate sense of beauty are inseparably and undeniably tied to one another. An act of kindness is a beautiful thing. When we lie, cheat or steal, we feel ugly inside.  In art and literature, the forces of good are typically portrayed as physically beautiful, and the forces of evil as physically ugly.
However, the old cliché that beauty is only skin deep is not true, and this is portrayed in art and literature as well.

This audio download is chapter 8 of the book, Searching for Spirit: Searching for truth about mind and morality.