Quotes about Perfection
The law was given to reveal what real sin looked like. When God gave the 10 commandments to Moses, his purpose wasn't to show us how we can be perfect and make it into heaven. God knew we could never live up to it. He did it so we can could see how bad we really can be.
— Andy Stanley
Angela, of course, it's just you, and you will never be enough, you will never have all the answers, and you will never become the perfect Christian girl; that's why you have always needed a Savior. Not only does Jesus save you from your sin, He saves you from your weakness. He saves you from your flawed and fallen self. And He saves you from your doubts. He is enough every time you are not.
— Angela Thomas
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
— Epictetus
The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.
— Joyce Meyer
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When God looks in the mirror He sees love.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray patiently.Pray purposefully.Pray painstakingly.Pray perfectly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it
— Edith Schaeffer
Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
— Aldous Huxley
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
— Dorothy Sayers
Don't show your flaws.
— Drew Barrymore
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
— Mahatma Gandhi