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If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.
I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.
By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.
Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.
Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.
As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.
The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.
The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself
This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.
Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.