Quotes About Perfection

Moving On to Deeper Truth 1Now is the time for us to progress beyond the basic message of Christa and advance into perfection. The foundation has already been laid for us to build upon: turning away from our dead worksb to embrace faith in God, teaching about different baptisms,c impartation by the laying on of hands,d resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3So with God's enablemente we will move on to deeper truths.

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely entrusted.

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

the higher perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

The goal of the spiritual life is to become the most perfect worshippers of God that we can possibly be, in this life and throughout all eternity.

Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.

Brother Lawrence called the practice of the presence of God the easiest and shortest way to attain Christian perfection and to be protected from sin.

the greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine grace.

The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearl'd; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven-- All's right with the world!

Nothing is so powerful or so perfect that it cannot be transformed utterly by the miracle of another girl. Or another boy

O dromedário tem o olho do cu mais elegante de todos os animais que conheço, nada tem que ver com a carne rosada e berrante do recto que se vê num cavalo. E produz a mais delicada bosta - uma forma elíptica, muito perfeita, que depressa endurece ao sol. a forma e a textura de uma noz-pecã.

Give advertising time. That is the thing that it needs most. The advertising agency is the most precious infant among the professions. Is it fair to expect perfection in a profession that counts only a single generation to its credit? We are learning. I see no reason why advertising agencies, too, should not outlive their founders and the successors of their founders, growing wiser with each generation and gathering a priceless possession of recorded experience.

This is an obsessive configuration insofar as the obsessive's desire is always for something impossible: to attain an unattainable status (e.g., perfection, omniscience, or immortality), to complete an uncompletable project, or to possess what he cannot possess. In saying that the obsessive is characterized by an impossible desire, Lacan goes so far as to add that his desire is for impossibility itself.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

I am not afraid of an opponent who practiced ten thousand kicks once. What I am afraid of is an opponent who practiced one kick, ten thousand times

When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind. The

Artistic skill, therefore, does not mean artistic perfection. It remains rather a continuing medium or reflection of some step in psychic development, the perfection of which is not to be found in shape and form, but must radiate from the human soul.

With all the training thrown to the wind, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, anybody knows where, the art of Jeet Kune Do attains its perfection.

Utopia: a synonym for oblivion.

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

because any human thing supposed to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.