Quotes about Perfection

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

A perfect woman, nobly planned,To warn, to comfort, and command.And yet a Spirit still, and brightWith something of angelic light.

We must look to God for His grace and His power to perfect godly qualities in our lives.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,Dead perfection, no more.

We, too, could easily forget that the good news is not a message of "Do your best, and be good enough!" but rather "Your best is never enough—but Jesus is.

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

Perfect refining is for another world

Passion drives perfection. The highest achievers in any field are those who do it because of passion, not duty or profit.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

I praise all of god's creations. It can't be that one part is perfect and the other part diseased. We are pained by knowing that we have sinned. That pain was given to us to show where we have lost love. If we listen to our own pain, we will find a way through to love once more. Sin is repaid by bliss. - Julian of Norwich

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.