Perfect Work Quotes

• I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Work, Men, Perfect

  Alexander Hamilton (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793”, p.435

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• Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Perfect, Lasts, Taste

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, 1899.

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• It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Perfect, Reputation, Easy

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• I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Errors, Perfect

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist Papers”, p.523, Penguin

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• Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessing, Perfect, Peaceful

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Perfect, Yoke, Christ

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.379

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• Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does not provide conscience opportunity to do its perfect work. They ought to allow the Holy Spirit through their conscience to point out their sins one by one. Christians must accept its reproach and be willing, according to the mind of the Spirit, to eliminate everything which is contrary to God.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Children, Opportunity

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.496, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Dream, Believe, Passion

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• The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Perfect, Christ

  Twitter post from Nov 28, 2016

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• The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be confounded. The Man of Genius,referred to mankind, is an originator, an inspired or demonic man, who produces a perfect work in obedience to laws yet unexplored. The artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. There has been no man of pure Genius, as there has been none wholly destitute of Genius.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Artist, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (1975). “Early Essays and Miscellanies”, p.328, Princeton University Press

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• The Lord will never abandon you nor forsake you. He will stick with you until His perfect work is complete.

  Jason Frenn

  Perfect, Sticks, Lord

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• We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

  Ellen G. White

  Perfect, Waiting, Promise

  Ellen G. White (1905). “The Ministry of Healing—Illustrated”, p.205, Digital Inspiration

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• Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Book, Reading

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• Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.

  Muhammad Asad

  Islamic, Perfect, Support

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• Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Art, Perfect

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• Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Wise, Stupid, Here I Am

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.82, Yale University Press

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• I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless path to enlightenment when will you do it? If you don't meditate, don't practise the graduated path to enlightenment, especially bodhicitta, in this life, then when? When will you practise? When will you have this realization? If, in this life, you don't achieve renunciation, bodhicitta and sunyata, as well as the two stages of tantra, when will you? When will you have these attainments? When will you become enlightened? When will you perform perfect work for sentient beings?

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Opportunity, Two

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• Never place a time limit on the healing. That is dictating to the spiritual intelligence that does its perfect work when it is not impeded by your questions and false beliefs.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Spiritual, Healing, Perfect

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• Consider the work of Calvary. A perfect work, perfect in every respect, perfect in every aspect

  Derek Prince

  Perfect, Calvary, Aspect

  Derek Prince (2007). “Bought with Blood: The Divine Exchange at the Cross”, p.26, Chosen Books

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• In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man. Brethren, your oppressors aim to do this. They endeavor to make you as much like brutes as possible. When they have blinded the eyes of your mind-when they have embittered the sweet waters of the light which shines from the word of God-then, and not till then has American slavery done its perfect work.

  Henry Highland Garnet

  Sweet, Eye, Men

  Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.47, Gale Cengage Learning

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• Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, Perfect

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.335

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• The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Perfect, Lazy

  Source: www.challies.com

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