Considering that many people nowadays dispute the possibility of a discourse concerning God that relies on natural reason alone, the present article, in its first part, endeavours to ascertain the relevance of the proofs of God's existence, while answering a couple of objections commonly raised against them. The second part presents the experience of beauty as the origin of the natural knowledge of God and explains how the fact of acknowledging that origin is apt to safeguard such knowledge from any kind of rationalist idolatry.