Quotes about Perfection
Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.
— Victor Hugo
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
— Victor Hugo
Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.
— Victor Hugo
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
— CS Lewis
I am perfect as I am. Everything in my life is working just the way it should. I am loved, and I am love.
— Deepak Chopra
If the structure of the world with all its order and beauty is only an effect of matter left to its own universal laws of motion, and if the blind mechanics of the natural forces can evolve so glorious a product out of chaos, and can attain to such perfection of themselves, then the proof of the Divine Author which is drawn from the spectacle of the beauty of the universe wholly loses its force. Nature is thus sufficient for itself; the Divine government is unnecessary.…
— Carl Sagan
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Don't run from the struggles of marriage. Embrace them. Grow in them. Draw nearer to God because of them. Through them you will reflect more of the spirit of Jesus Christ. And thank God he has placed you in a situation where your spirit can be perfected.
— Gary Thomas
the higher perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
— Brother Lawrence
The goal of the spiritual life is to become the most perfect worshippers of God that we can possibly be, in this life and throughout all eternity.
— Brother Lawrence
Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.
— Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence called the practice of the presence of God the easiest and shortest way to attain Christian perfection and to be protected from sin.
— Brother Lawrence