“There is a difference between having an opinion that God is holy and gracious, and having a sense of the loveliness and beauty of that holiness and grace. There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness. . . . So there is a difference between believing that a person is beautiful and having a sense of his beauty. The former may be obtained by hear-say, but the latter only by seeing the countenance.”

Jonathan Edwards