Quotes About Perfection

A great inferiority of beauty gives pain to a person conversant in the highest excellence of the kind, and is for that reason pronounced a deformity; as the most finished object with which we are acquainted is naturally supposed to have reached the pinnacle of perfection, and to be entitled to the highest applause.

L]iberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence...

The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.

A dice maker agreed with Scarne: "Once in a blue moon you might find a single store die that classes as a perfect, but the chance of finding two of them in a box of 60 and the chance that they would both be sold to the same purchaser as a pair is so small you can forget about it. It never happened.

Honest people recognize the limitations of their own knowledge. God's perfection does not extend to God's creatures.

God is holy; holiness is an essential attribute of His nature. With respect to Him, it means absolute purity and moral perfection. With respect to man, holiness means conformity to the character of God. We must be holy because God is holy (I Peter 1:15-16). It means thinking as God thinks, loving what He loves, hating what He hates, and acting as Christ would act.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

God dwells in the details.

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.

Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she not God's masterpiece?

Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time.