Quotes About Perfection

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.