Quotes About Perfection

We won't be perfect on this side of heaven. But Jesus is perfect. Always. We are becoming more holy and true. Jesus already is. His name isn't "Becoming." It is "I Am." Perfection isn't the goal. Jesus is.

He calls us to gaze not on our brokenness but on our Healer. He says, "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith" (Heb. 12:2). We move toward what we focus on.

No one gets a pain-free life. I know some girls' lives look pretty perfect from a distance, but only from a distance. You get close and you learn the truth. A life without suffering is a fantasy life, and you don't live in a fantasy.

Golden Boy with feet of clay Let me help you on your way A proper push will take you far - But what a clumsy lad you are!

It is their refusal to see any divine beings as perfect, whole and complete of themselves, whether Zeus, Moros or Prometheus, that makes the Greeks so satisfying.

It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider – and is comic, whereas The Great Gatsby is a tragic novel. And I think all great art is comic art. ( video )

The discarded animals—the failures—had been the hippopotamus, the giraffe, the camel, the donkey, and the zebra, each one getting closer to the perfect dimensions, beauty, and balance of the horse.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

Hadn't somebody said that perfect paranoia and perfect awareness were the same thing?

Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for.

One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection.

The trap had a ghastly perfection

To inspire is revealing the unpolished bits before perfection.

It's easy to be a Christian when you're living the perfect life. It's easy to live a perfect life when God seems to be showering you with blessings.

In fairy tales they all seem perfect, but really they are just as troubled as we are!

They say if you're a better person today than you were yesterday you're well on the road to perfection. So I figure if I'm a real snot today, tomorrow I should make huge progress.

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

I hate that our world makes it look like everyone is perfect but you. Each and every one of us is human. Why are all the flaw that we all have hidden like they're not real?

All seek perfection from our parents … Just wait till your parents start depending on you, that is when your own perfection, or lack thereof, will be apparent.

If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.

If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey.

For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.

I hope you learn to love yourself for who you are and what you look like, and how you were born to be, because you are perfect in your own way.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.