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The sign of spiritual beauty is evidence of good deeds that come unfeignedly from the heart, such as: purity, love, humility, patience, meekness, truth, mercy, prayer - all good intercessors, and others. By good deeds, which come from a pure heart and unfeigned faith, the soul shows in itself its likeness, with which it is conformed to God as an original image. God is holy, full of love, true, generous, merciful, good, meek, long-suffering, etc., and a Christian, when he conforms to Him with virtues, gives evidence of the image of God in him, in which goodness and spiritual beauty consists.
There is similarity and likeness between the image and the prototype. True Christian virtues testify to a kind and beautiful soul in no other way than good fruits on a good tree (Matthew 7:17).