Quotes About Perfections

The example of the tabernacle proves that God loves all kinds of art, in all kinds of media and all kinds of styles-provided, that is, that they are in keeping with the perfections of his character. As John Calvin said, "All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions."3 Therefore, as Christians we are not limited to crosses and flannelgraphs, or to praise choruses and evangelistic skits.

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.

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.

MARCH 23 FOR A BODHISATTVA to be successful in accomplishing the practice of the six perfections — generosity, ethical discipline, tolerance, joyous effort, concentration and wisdom — cooperation with, and kindness towards, fellow beings are extremely important.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

She writes: "I see nothing and I see all; certitude is obtained in the darkness;"1166 that is, I see nothing determinate, but I see all the divine perfections united, fused in an ineffable manner in the eminence of the Deity.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

I love the flaws and foibles of people - I'm much more interested in that than perfections.

IRENE observes, 'That the Supreme Being will accept of virtue, whatever outward circumstances it may be accompanied with, and may be delighted with varieties of worship: but is answered, that variety cannot affect that Being, who, infinitely happy in his own perfections, wants no external gratifications; nor can infinite truth be delighted with falsehood; that though he may guide or pity those he leaves in darkness, he abandons those who shut their eyes against the beams of day.

And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections?

We are bound to those we love by their imperfections their perfections help us to explain them to others.

He is solitary in His majesty, unique in His excellency, peerless in His perfections. He sustains all, but is Himself independent of all. He gives to all, but is enriched by none. By revelation Such a God cannot be found out by searching. He can be known only as He is revealed to the heart by the Holy Spirit through the Word.

He is solitary in His majesty, unique in His excellency, peerless in His perfections. He sustains all, but is Himself independent of all. He gives to all, but is enriched by none.

The foundation of all true knowledge of God must be a clear mental apprehension of His perfections as revealed in Holy Scripture. An

Such an One is to be revered, worshipped, adored. He is solitary in His majesty, unique in His excellency, peerless in His perfections. He sustains all, but is Himself independent of all. He gives to all, but is enriched by none.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

The true way to improve and ennoble our souls is, by fixing our love on the divine perfections, that we may have them always before us, and derive an impression of them on ourselves; and, beholding with open face, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, we may be changed into the same image, from glory to glory.

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

We must first believe that he is, and that he is what he declares himself to be, before we can seek him, adore him, and devote our affections to him.13 We cannot pay God a due and regular homage, unless we understand him in his perfections, what he is; and we can pay him no homage at all, unless we believe that he is.

No ver a las personas es una cosa que permite suponer en ellas todas las perfecciones.

Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls.