Quotes about Perfection

Sweet little flower of heavenly birth You were too fair to bloom on earth.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth.

And God saw that it was good.

Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.

The more she tried to live a perfect life for God, the more she recognized her failings.

In Him we live and breathe. In Him we will one day find one another again. In Him we are one. In this life we will not love perfectly. In the next, God promises we will. I hold to that hope. I cling to that dream.

How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.

We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.

In the infinity of life where I am, All is perfect, whole and complete, I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.