Perfection Quotes - Page 24

• The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

  Thomas Berry

  Kids, Diversity, Tolerance

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• What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.

  Albert Pike

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Art, Men, Oasis

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• The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and sufferings in this world, but that there should be law and order, beauty and joy, goodness and love. The idea of God that man has in his being is the wonder of all wonders. He has felt in the depths of his life that what appears as imperfect is the manifestation of the perfect.

  Victor Gollancz

  God, Song, Order

  "Man and God: Passages Chosen and Arranged to Express a Mood about the Human and the Divine".

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• Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

  Robert Kirkman

  Technology, Different, Matter

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• A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.

  A. L. Rowse

  Morning, Spring, School

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• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  Adam Clarke

  Infinite, Source, Existence

  Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian theology, by A. Clarke, selected from his writings, with a life of the author by S. Dunn”, p.70

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• Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

  William Shakespeare

  Littles, Moments, Grows

  William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans (2006). “The Sonnets”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience.

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Perseverance, Rain

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• 'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is' (I Jn. 3:2). This is the perfection of adoption of sons and renewal which God bestowed on us in Christ, and of which John says in his Gospel that, 'Christ gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God' (Jn. 1:12-13).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Believe, Son

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• ... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Perfect, Needs

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• ...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Failure, Power

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.79, Paulist Press

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• But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.

  Miguel Najdorf

  Games, Play, Style

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• The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Light, Doubt, Wipe

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.77, Penguin

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• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Broken, Doe

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• Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Perfect, Judging, Creative

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 04, 2015

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• Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

  Tom Ford

  Personality, Strive, Wells

  "The man with the golden touch" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2008.

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• Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Excellence, Impossible, Achieve

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• I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete

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• Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Character, Age

  "Karl Lagerfeld Smells Like "Fresh, Ironed Linen"". Interview with Emily Dougherty, www.elle.com. March 11, 2014.

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• When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

  Cecelie Berry

  Claims, Young, Knows

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• Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent-perf ection is impossible.

  Michael Hyatt

  Consistency, Impossible, Consistent

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• Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Desire, Rooms, Causes

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• Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

  Mario Testino

  Fashion, People, Bored

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