Quotes about Completion
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
— Marilyn Monroe
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
— Lewis Carroll
Remember, it's the finish, not the start, that counts the most in life.
— John Maxwell
And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
— Genesis 1:31
Infinite players cannot say how much they have completed in their work or love or quarreling, but only that much remains incomplete in it. They are not concerned to determine when it is over, but only what comes of it.
— James Carse
He is not only its omega but also its alpha, and he is and can be its omega only as he is its alpha."1
— Peter Lillback
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
— Matthew 5:48
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
— JRR Tolkien
It is only to admit that what we have cannot be explained as an early (second-millennium-BC) document written essentially by one person (Moses). Rather, the Pentateuch has a diverse compositional history spanning many centuries and was brought to completion after the return from exile.
— Peter Enns
The argument is at an end.
— St. Augustine
IT'S THE JOB THAT IS NEVER STARTED THAT TAKES THE LONGEST TO FINISH.
— John Maxwell
the point about God's authority is that the whole Bible is about God establishing his kingdom on earth as in heaven, completing (in other words) the project begun but aborted in Genesis 1—3.
— NT Wright