Quotes about Perfection
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
— George Bernard Shaw
She filled up all blanks with unmanifested perfections, interpreting him as she interpreted the works of Providence, and accounting for seeming discords by her own deafness to the higher harmonies. And there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.
— George Eliot
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
— AW Tozer
Keep the faith; work hard: practice does make you perfect. Do what you can, and meet the right people to make it work.
— Christina Milian
In this world there is very little harmony between the inner and the outer life. But, if we live according to the will of God, then the time will come when there will be perfect harmony between the inner and the outer life for ever. The outer will be exactly like the inner and the inner exactly like the outer. And by his grace we shall become perfect like our Father in Heaven.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.
— Anselm of Canterbury
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
— St. Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
— St. Augustine
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly.
— Francis de Sales
Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
People are not perfect—that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection.
— Marianne Williamson