Quotes about Perfection
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
- Francis de Sales
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
- William Law
If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you. For it is certain that whatever seeming calamity happens to you, if you thank and praise God for it, you turn it into a blessing.
- William Law
The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.
- Jim Elliot
It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.
- St. Basil
And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
- Anselm of Canterbury
God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.
- Billy Graham
God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.
- Charles Swindoll
Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.
- Joseph Addison
God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.
- Oswald Chambers
He is not only a God of perfect time, but of perfect timing.
- Beth Moore
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
- Michelangelo