“The Lord was specific even about small details. Around the hem of the priests’ garments there were to be embroidered pomegranates of purple, blue, and red, interspersed with golden bells: “a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, round about on the skirts of the robe” (Exod. 28:34). Even though the children of Israel were refugees, wandering in the desert and living in tents, God commanded Moses to use extravagant resources to make worship beautiful. All of it portable, too, so that an impoverished people could carry that beauty with them, as they crossed and recrossed the desert over the course of four decades.
Beauty must mean something. God must know something about how beauty works on the human heart. He must have made us that way.”

~Frederica Matthewes-Green