Quotes about Perfection

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

I am perfect as I am. Everything in my life is working just the way it should. I am loved, and I am love.

If the structure of the world with all its order and beauty is only an effect of matter left to its own universal laws of motion, and if the blind mechanics of the natural forces can evolve so glorious a product out of chaos, and can attain to such perfection of themselves, then the proof of the Divine Author which is drawn from the spectacle of the beauty of the universe wholly loses its force. Nature is thus sufficient for itself; the Divine government is unnecessary.…

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Don't run from the struggles of marriage. Embrace them. Grow in them. Draw nearer to God because of them. Through them you will reflect more of the spirit of Jesus Christ. And thank God he has placed you in a situation where your spirit can be perfected.

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.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God's purpose is to make us one with Himself.