Quotes about Perfection
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
— Erica Jong
The suitable is the last thing we ever want.
— Ellen Glasgow
It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God's purpose is to make us one with Himself.
— Oswald Chambers
There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
— RC Sproul
What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
— Corrie Ten Boom
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am so hip even my errors are correct
— Nikki Giovanni
Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.
— Max Lucado
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
— Teresa of Avila
To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
— DH Lawrence