Quotes about Perfection

The Shepherd laughed too. "I love doing preposterous things," he replied. "Why, I don't know anything more exhilarating and delightful than turning weakness into strength, and fear into faith, and that which has been marred into perfection. If there is one thing more than mother which I should enjoy doing at this moment it is turning a jellyfish into a mountain goat.

The apple in June is a perfect apple for June. It is the best apple that June can produce. But it is very different from the apple in October, which is a perfected apple.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.

Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.

If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

Ponder the achievement of God. He doesn't condone our sin, nor does he compromise his standard. He doesn't ignore our rebellion, nor does he relax his demands. Rather than dismiss our sin, he assumes our sin and, incredibly, sentences himself. God's holiness is honored. Our sin is punished....and we are redeemed. God does what we cannot do so we can be what we dare not dream: perfect before God.

Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

Your kids ever act like that? Tim laughed. Come on, man, I'm a pastor. My kids were perfect.