Quotes about Perfection

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

Consider the work of Calvary. A perfect work, perfect in every respect, perfect in every aspect.

Only because the message concerning Jesus Christ must still go forth and find believers, and because our task is not yet perfected, does God in His patience continue to sustain us with His good gifts.

Jesus does not want to be the only perfect human being at the expense of humankind. He does not want, as the only guiltless one, to ignore a humanity that is being destroyed by its guilt; he does not want some kind of human ideal to triumph over the ruins of a wrecked humanity.

To be conformed to the image of Christ is not an ideal to be striven after. It is not as though we had to imitate him as well as we could. We cannot transform ourselves into his image; it is rather the form of Christ which seeks to be formed in us (Gal. 4.19), and to be manifested in us. Christ's work in us is not finished until he has perfected his own form in us. We must be assimilated to the form of Christ in its entirety, the form of Christ incarnate, crucified and glorified.

Everything was perfect. I sensed that I knew everything and had no questions to ask.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.