Quotes about Perfection
Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear—one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?
- Hebrews 7:11
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
- Hebrews 7:19
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
- Hebrews 10:1
because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
- Hebrews 10:14
God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.
- Hebrews 11:40
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- James 1:17
You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.
- James 2:22
We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.
- James 3:2
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
- Jude 1:24
I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.
- Paulo Coelho
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.
- Leon Battista Alberti
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Tony Robbins