Perfection Quotes - Page 13

• The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

  Elihu Root

  Men, Ideas, Police

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

  Neil Diamond

  Attitude, Inspiration, Different

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• God created us to be worshipers because it is right that he be known, loved and worshiped. This isn't because he is needy and wishes someone would tell him how special he is. No, it's because he is perfect and the worship of his perfection is holiness in action.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Perfect, Special, Wish

  Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway

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• Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

  Douglas Merrill

  Success, Differences, Excellence

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• The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and sufferings in this world, but that there should be law and order, beauty and joy, goodness and love. The idea of God that man has in his being is the wonder of all wonders. He has felt in the depths of his life that what appears as imperfect is the manifestation of the perfect.

  Victor Gollancz

  God, Song, Order

  "Man and God: Passages Chosen and Arranged to Express a Mood about the Human and the Divine".

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• Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

  Robert Kirkman

  Technology, Different, Matter

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• A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.

  A. L. Rowse

  Morning, Spring, School

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• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  Adam Clarke

  Infinite, Source, Existence

  Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian theology, by A. Clarke, selected from his writings, with a life of the author by S. Dunn”, p.70

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• Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Demand, Not Being Perfect, Strive

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Aug 25, 2013

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• Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

  William Shakespeare

  Littles, Moments, Grows

  William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans (2006). “The Sonnets”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience.

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Perseverance, Rain

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• 'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is' (I Jn. 3:2). This is the perfection of adoption of sons and renewal which God bestowed on us in Christ, and of which John says in his Gospel that, 'Christ gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God' (Jn. 1:12-13).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Believe, Son

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• ...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable dwelling place (cf. Jn. 14:2) will be ours to enjoy. For this is what our sainted teacher said in his famous philosophical aphorism: 'Then we shall know as we are known' (I Cor. 13:12), when we mingle our god-formed mind and divine reason to what is properly its own and the image returns to the archetype for which it now longs.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Teacher, Philosophical

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• ... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Perfect, Needs

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• ...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Failure, Power

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.79, Paulist Press

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• We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with the Gospel are its intermediate stage, and its perfection is victory through spiritual struggles against the passions, which procures painless, indestructible, heavenly life.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Struggle

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• [God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total perfection, but also because He is far beyond being so. He sets a boundary to the boundless and in His total unity He rises above all limitation. He is neither contained nor comprehended by anything. He reaches out to everything and beyond everything and does so with unfailing generosity and unstinted activity.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Perfect, Generosity

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• But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.

  Miguel Najdorf

  Games, Play, Style

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• The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Light, Doubt, Wipe

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.77, Penguin

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• The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

  Socrates

  Perfect, Together, Collectives

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• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Broken, Doe

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• Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Perfect, Judging, Creative

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 04, 2015

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• Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Needs, Goes On

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• If God is not unchanging, then the whole basis of our faith begins to fall apart, and our understanding of the universe begins to unravel. This is because our faith and hope and knowledge all ultimately depend on a person who is infinitely worthy of trust - because he is absolutely and eternally unchanging in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises.

  Wayne Grudem

  Fall, Understanding, Promise

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.153, Zondervan

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• Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Empowering, Guilt

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 06, 2015

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